The short-lived African turquoise killifish: An emerging experimental model for ageing

DMM Disease Models and Mechanisms

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 115-129

  Kim, Yumi ^a,b   Nam, Hong Gil ^b,c   Valenzano, Dario Riccardo ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGY OF AGEING   (Germany)

^b Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^c Institute for Basic Science   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Age associated diseases; Ageing; Longevity; Model organisms; Nothobranchius furzeri; Turquoise killifish

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CYTOKERATIN 8; LIPOFUSCIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN P53;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; AGING; ANIMAL MODEL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL AGING; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DIET RESTRICTION; DNA MODIFICATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FERTILITY; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC MANIPULATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; IN VIVO STUDY; INNATE IMMUNITY; KILLIFISH; LIFE CYCLE; LONGEVITY; MUS MUSCULUS; NONHUMAN; NOTHOBRANCHIUS FURZERI; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SENESCENCE; SEXUAL MATURATION; SEXUAL MATURITY; TELOMERE; TEMPERATURE; TRANSGENICS; UBIQUITINATION; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; FUNDULIDAE; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGING; ANIMALS; FUNDULIDAE; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MODELS, ANIMAL;

EID: 84957944279     PISSN: 17548403     EISSN: 17548411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dmm.023226     Document Type: Review

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