A decline in p38 MAPK signaling underlies immunosenescence in caenorhabditis elegans

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Youngman, Matthew J ^a   Rogers, Zoë N ^a   Kim, Dennis H ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DAF 16; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PMK 1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; PMK-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNOSENESCENCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTESTINE; LIFESPAN; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

AGING; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79957992660     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002082     Document Type: Article

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