Carnosinase levels in aging brain: Redox state induction and cellular stress response

Antioxidants and Redox Signaling

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2759-2775

  Bellia, Francesco ^a   Calabrese, Vittorio ^a   Guarino, Francesca ^a,c   Cavallaro, Monia ^a   Cornelius, Carolin ^a   De Pinto, Vito ^a,c   Rizzarelli, Enrico ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c National Institute of Biosystems and Biostructures   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; CARNOSINASE CN1; DIPEPTIDASE; GLUTATHIONE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 72; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90; HEME OXYGENASE 1; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; THIOL DERIVATIVE; THIOREDOXIN; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AMINOACYL-HISTIDINE DIPEPTIDASE; AMINOACYLHISTIDINE DIPEPTIDASE;

AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL LINE; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; CEREBELLUM; CORPUS STRIATUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NITROSATIVE STRESS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PURIFICATION; RAT; REVIEW; SENESCENCE; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HELA CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WISTAR RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DIPEPTIDASES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GLUTATHIONE; HELA CELLS; HEME OXYGENASE-1; HSP72 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; THIOREDOXIN-DISULFIDE REDUCTASE;

EID: 73449088037     PISSN: 15230864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ars.2009.2738     Document Type: Review

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