TGF-βとインスリンシグナル伝達は,卵細胞と生殖細胞の質維持を通じて生殖老化を調節する

Shijing Luo1, Gunnar A Kleemann, Jasmine M Ashraf

  • 1Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.

Cell
|October 16, 2010
PubMed
まとめ

C. elegansの生殖老化は,TGF-βおよびインスリン/IGF-1シグナル伝達経路によって調節され,卵細胞の質と生殖期間に影響を与えます. これらの発見は,虫とヒトの生殖老化の保存されたメカニズムを明らかにしています.

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