Decrease in PTEN and increase in Akt expression and neuron size in aged rat spinal cord

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 457-463

  Rodrigues de Amorim, Miguel Augusto ^a   Garcia Segura, Luis Miguel ^a   Goya, Rodolfo Gustavo ^b   Portiansky, Enrique Leo ^c  

^a INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOQUÍMICAS DE LA PLATA INIBIOLP   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Aging; Morphometry; Motoneurons; Neuronal size; Protein phosphatase

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN KINASE B;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FEMALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TARGETING; RAT; SPINAL CORD; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGING; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL ENLARGEMENT; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; PTEN PHOSPHOHYDROLASE; RATS; SPINAL CORD; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 77952546611     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2010.03.015     Document Type: Article

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