Predicting longevity in C. elegans: Fertility, mobility and gene expression

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Volumn 134, Issue 7-8, 2013, Pages 291-297

  Cypser, James R ^a,b   Wu, Deqing ^a,c   Park, Sang Kyu ^a,d   Ishii, Takamasa ^a   Tedesco, Patricia M ^a   Mendenhall, Alexander R ^a,e   Johnson, Thomas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Soonchunhyang University   (South Korea)

^d TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarker of aging; C. elegans; Heat shock proteins; Hsp 16; Hsp 17; Hsp 70; Mac 1; Stochastic variation

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILITY; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSGENE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; LONGEVITY; MUTATION; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84880133200     PISSN: 00476374     EISSN: 18726216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mad.2013.02.003     Document Type: Article

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