Article
Relevance of 'adaptive' mutations arising in non-dividing cells of microorganisms to age-related changes in mutant phenotypes of neurons.
Trends in neurosciences - 1 Nov 1997
Finch C E, Goodman M F
Abstract excerpt
Brattleboro rats do not produce vasopressin (VP) because of a germ-line single-base deletion (di) that causes a frame shift downstream from the VP sequences and a loss of a stop codon. The resulting frame-shifted peptide precursor does not enter the secretory pathway in hypothalamic neurons, ther...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Aging
- Animals
- Bacteria
- Bacterial Physiological Phenomena
- Humans
- Mutation
- Neurons
- Rats
- Rats, Brattleboro
- Recombinant Proteins
