Life-long caloric restriction: Effect on age-related changes in motoneuron numbers, sizes and apoptotic markers

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Volumn 131, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 650-659

  Chopek, Jeremy W ^a,b   Gardiner, Phillip F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Apoptosis; Caloric restriction; Cell death; Motoneuron; Number; Size

Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT INFLAMMATORY FACTOR 1; AUTOPHAGY PROTEIN 7; CASPASE 3; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CYTOCHROME C; DNA GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 27; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN 3 BETA; OXOGUANINE GLYCOSYLASE 1; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOTONEURON; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; MUSCLE MASS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SOMATIC CELL; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGING; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CELL SIZE; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; FEMALE; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

RATTUS;

EID: 77957902670     PISSN: 00476374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mad.2010.09.001     Document Type: Article

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