Genes down-regulated in spaceflight are involved in the control of longevity in Caenorhabditis elegans

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Honda, Yoko ^a   Higashibata, Akira ^b   Matsunaga, Yohei ^c   Yonezawa, Yukiko ^d   Kawano, Tsuyoshi ^c   Higashitani, Atsushi ^c   Kuriyama, Kana ^e   Shimazu, Toru ^e   Tanaka, Masashi ^a   Szewczyk, Nathaniel J ^f,g   Ishioka, Noriaki ^b   Honda, Shuji ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f University of Nottingham ^*  (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ENDOCRINE CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LONGEVITY; MALE; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPACE FLIGHT; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ENDOCRINE CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LONGEVITY; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; NEURONS; PHEROMONES; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPACE FLIGHT; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 84863800657     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00487     Document Type: Article

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