Peroxisome deficient invertebrate and vertebrate animal models

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 4 NOV, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Van Veldhoven, Paul P ^a   Baes, Myriam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Inflammation; Male fertility; Phytanic acid; Plasmalogens; PUFA; Very long chain fatty acids; Zellweger syndrome

Indexed keywords

PEROXIN;

AGING; BIOGENESIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FUNCTION; CELL METABOLISM; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL SURVIVAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HATCHING; INVERTEBRATE; LIFESPAN; METABOLIC DISORDER; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANOGENESIS; PATHOGENESIS; PEROXISOME; PEX GENE; POSTNATAL GROWTH; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTIS; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH;

EID: 84889651286     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2013.00335     Document Type: Review

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