Telomeres shorten while Tert expression increases during ageing of the short-lived fish Nothobranchius furzeri

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Volumn 130, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 290-296

  Hartmann, Nils ^a   Reichwald, Kathrin ^a   Lechel, André ^b   Graf, Michael ^a   Kirschner, Jeanette ^a   Dorn, Alexander ^a   Terzibasi, Eva ^a   Wellner, Juliane ^a   Platzer, Matthias ^a   Rudolph, Karl Lenhard ^b   Cellerino, Alessandro ^a   Englert, Christoph ^a  

^a FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Killifish; Lifespan; Telomerase; Telomere; Terc; Tert

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN TERC; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FISH; LIFESPAN; MUSCLE LENGTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; LONGEVITY; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

CYPRINODONTOIDEI; NOTHOBRANCHIUS FURZERI; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 61849115029     PISSN: 00476374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mad.2009.01.003     Document Type: Article

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