Ageing increases vulnerability to Aβ42 toxicity in Drosophila

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Rogers, Iain ^a   Kerr, Fiona ^a   Martinez, Pedro ^a   Hardy, John ^b   Lovestone, Simon ^c   Partridge, Linda ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGY OF AGEING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN[1-42]; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEASOME;

A BETA 42 GENE; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LIFESPAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN METABOLISM;

AGING; AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MIFEPRISTONE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RNA, MESSENGER; SOLUBILITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84863750775     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040569     Document Type: Article

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