Immune responses accelerate ageing: Proof-of-principle in an insect model

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Pursall, E Rhiannon ^a   Rolff, Jens ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTHROPOD LIFE CYCLE STAGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; LARVAL STAGE; LIFESPAN; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SURVIVAL TIME; TENEBRIO; TENEBRIO MOLITOR; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; BEETLE; IMMUNOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; TENEBRIO MOLITOR;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGING; ANIMALS; BEETLES; MODELS, ANIMAL;

EID: 79956197963     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019972     Document Type: Article

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