You are what you eat: Multifaceted functions of autophagy during Celegans development

Cell Research

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 80-91

  Yang, Peiguo ^a   Zhang, Hong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

AIN 1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; AIN-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; CARRIER PROTEIN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AGING; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; LIPID METABOLISM; LYSOSOME; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; PHAGOSOME; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARRIER PROTEINS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LIPID METABOLISM; LYSOSOMES; MITOCHONDRIA; PHAGOSOMES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RNA INTERFERENCE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84891748146     PISSN: 10010602     EISSN: 17487838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/cr.2013.154     Document Type: Review

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