Differential gene expression in the liver of the African lungfish, Protopterus annectens, after 6 months of aestivation in air or 1 day of arousal from 6 months of aestivation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Hiong, Kum C ^a   Ip, Yuen K ^b   Wong, Wai P ^b   Chew, Shit F ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMMONIA; ARGININOSUCCINATE SYNTHASE; ARGININOSUCCINATE SYNTHASE 1; BETAINE HOMOCYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; BETAINE HOMOCYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; CARBAMOYL PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; CARBAMOYL PHOSPHATE SYNTHETASE III; CARBOHYDRATE; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; FATTY ACID; FRESH WATER; HOMOCYSTEINE; LIPID; MESSENGER RNA; NITROGEN; ORNITHINE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA; CARBAMOYL-PHOSPHATE SYNTHETASE (N-ACETYLGLUTAMATE); COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LIGASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

AESTIVATION; AFRICAN; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; COMPLEMENT FIXATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPPER METABOLISM; DETOXIFICATION; DOWN REGULATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FATTY ACID TRANSPORT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IRON METABOLISM; LIPID METABOLISM; LUNGFISH; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTOPTERUS ANNECTENS; SUPPRESSION SUBTRACTIVE HYBRIDIZATION; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UPREGULATION; UREA CYCLE; AFRICA; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; LIVER; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

PROTOPTERIDAE; PROTOPTERUS ANNECTENS;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; ARGININOSUCCINATE SYNTHASE; AROUSAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BETAINE-HOMOCYSTEINE S-METHYLTRANSFERASE; CARBON-NITROGEN LIGASES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENERGY METABOLISM; ESTIVATION; FISHES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE LIBRARY; LIVER; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 84926358199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121224     Document Type: Article

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