A neural signaling triumvirate that influences ageing and age-related disease: Insulin/IGF-1, BDNF and serotonin

Ageing Research Reviews

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 445-464

  Mattson, Mark P ^a,b   Maudsley, Stuart ^a   Martin, Bronwen ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; CREB; Hippocampus; Hypothalamus; PI3 kinase; Stress response

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CITALOPRAM; INSULIN; PAROXETINE; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SOMATOMEDIN C; THIOCTIC ACID;

ADAPTATION; AGING; BACTERIAL MUTATION; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL REGENERATION; CELL STIMULATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET RESTRICTION; ENERGY METABOLISM; EXERCISE; FOOD INTAKE; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH RETARDATION; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; LEARNING DISORDER; LONGEVITY; MEMORY DISORDER; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 8444250215     PISSN: 15681637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arr.2004.08.001     Document Type: Short Survey

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