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Influence of steroid hormone signaling on life span control by Caenorhabditis elegans insulin-like signaling.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) - 20 May 2013
Dumas Kathleen J, Guo Chunfang, Shih Hung-Jen, Hu Patrick J
Abstract excerpt
Sterol-sensing nuclear receptors and insulin-like growth factor signaling play evolutionarily conserved roles in the control of aging. In the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, bile acid-like steroid hormones known as dafachronic acids (DAs) influence longevity by binding to and regulating the activity of the conserved nuclear receptor DAF-12, and the insulin receptor (InsR) ortholog DAF-2 controls life span by...
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