Insulin regulation of heart function in aging fruit flies

Nature Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1275-1281

  Wessells, Robert J ^a   Fitzgerald, Erin ^a   Cypser, James R ^b   Tatar, Marc ^b   Bodmer, Rolf ^a  

^a BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOMATOMEDIN RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHR;

AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART RATE; INSULIN METABOLISM; LIFESPAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; STRESS;

AGING; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CROSSES, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HEART; HEART RATE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MUTATION; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; PTEN PHOSPHOHYDROLASE; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR, INSULIN; SEX FACTORS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 9644278037     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1476     Document Type: Article

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