Cinnamomum cassia bark in two herbal formulas increases life span in Caenorhabditis elegansvia insulin signaling and stress response pathways

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Yu, Young Beob ^a,c,d   Dosanjh, Laura ^a   Lao, Lixing ^b   Tan, Ming ^b   Shim, Bum Sang ^e   Luo, Yuan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF PHARMACY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine (KIOM)   (South Korea)

^d Nambu University   (South Korea)

^e Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CINNAMOMUM CASSIA EXTRACT; GINSENG EXTRACT; HUO LUO XIAO LING DAN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; INSULIN; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; SHI QUAN DA BU TANG; SMALL HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HERBACEOUS AGENT; HSP 16.2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; HSP-16.2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; INSULIN RECEPTOR; JUZENTAIHOTO;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BARK; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CINNAMOMUM CASSIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; FATIGUE; GINSENG; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOXICITY; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CINNAMOMUM AROMATICUM; DRUG EFFECT; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PARALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CINNAMOMI; CINNAMOMUM AROMATICUM; INVERTEBRATA; PANAX GINSENG;

AGING; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CINNAMOMUM AROMATICUM; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS, SMALL; HUMANS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; LONGEVITY; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, ANIMAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARALYSIS; PLANT BARK; RECEPTOR, INSULIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77949651722     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009339     Document Type: Article

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