Spontaneous dwarf rat: A novel model for aging research

Geriatrics and Gerontology International

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 94-101

  Kuramoto, Kazunao ^a   Tahara, Shoichi ^a   Sasaki, Toru ^a   Matsumoto, Shigenobu ^a   Kaneko, Takao ^a   Kondo, Hiroshi ^b   Yanabe, Makoto ^c   Takagi, Shohei ^c   Shinkai, Tadashi ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HUMAN ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c Japan SLC Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

Age related diseases; Aging; Dwarf rat; Growth hormone; Insulin like growth factor 1; Oxidative stress

Indexed keywords

GHRELIN; GROWTH HORMONE; INSULIN; SOMATOMEDIN C;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BREAST TUMOR; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DWARFISM; FEMALE; GROWTH; HEART DISEASE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; MALE; MALOCCLUSION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT STRAIN; SPONATANEOUS DWARF RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PITUITARY GLAND; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RODENT DISEASES;

EID: 73049084872     PISSN: 14441586     EISSN: 14470594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0594.2009.00559.x     Document Type: Article

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