Body size regulation and insulin-like growth factor signaling

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 2351-2365

  Hyun, Seogang ^a  

^a Chung Ang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Body size; Fat body; Growth hormone; IGF 1; Insulin signaling; MicroRNA; Sexual maturation; Steroid hormone

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN; SOMATOMEDIN C;

BODY GROWTH; BODY SIZE; DOWN REGULATION; DROSOPHILA; FAT BODY; GROWTH REGULATION; HUMAN; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PUBERTY; REVIEW; SEXUAL MATURATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; DROSOPHILA; HUMANS; INSULIN; LARVA; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEXUAL MATURATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATOMEDINS;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84879109324     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-013-1313-5     Document Type: Review

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