Bruce Nathan Ames

Affiliations: 
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States 
Area:
mitochondrial decay, mutagens
Website:
http://mcb.berkeley.edu/index.php?option=com_mcbfaculty&name=amesb
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Parents

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Herschel K. Mitchell grad student 1953 Caltech
 (The biosynthesis of histidine in Neurospora crassa )
Bernard L. Horecker post-doc 1953-1954 NIH

Children

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David E. Levin grad student (Cell Biology Tree)
James Riley Broach grad student 1973 UC Berkeley (PombeTree)
Gisela Storz grad student 1988 UC Berkeley (Microtree)
Susan T. Mashiyama grad student 2004 UC Berkeley
Ludmila A. Voloboueva grad student 2004 UC Berkeley
Chardonnay J. Vance grad student 2008 UC Berkeley
David F. Silbert post-doc 1964-1966 NIH
Gerald R. Fink post-doc 1965-1967 NIH
John Roger Roth post-doc 1965-1967 NIH (Microtree)
Gerald Ralph Smith post-doc 1970-1972 UC Berkeley (Cell Biology Tree)
Graham C. Walker post-doc 1975 UC Berkeley
David W. Killilea post-doc 2000-2003 University of California at Berkeley (Physics Tree)
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McCann JC, Ames BN. (2011) Adaptive dysfunction of selenoproteins from the perspective of the triage theory: why modest selenium deficiency may increase risk of diseases of aging. Faseb Journal : Official Publication of the Federation of American Societies For Experimental Biology. 25: 1793-814
Ames BN. (2010) Prevention of mutation, cancer, and other age-associated diseases by optimizing micronutrient intake. Journal of Nucleic Acids. 2010
Ames BN. (2010) Optimal micronutrients delay mitochondrial decay and age-associated diseases. Mechanisms of Ageing and Development. 131: 473-9
Shenk JC, Liu J, Fischbach K, et al. (2009) The effect of acetyl-L-carnitine and R-alpha-lipoic acid treatment in ApoE4 mouse as a model of human Alzheimer's disease. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 283: 199-206
Long J, Gao F, Tong L, et al. (2009) Mitochondrial decay in the brains of old rats: ameliorating effect of alpha-lipoic acid and acetyl-L-carnitine. Neurochemical Research. 34: 755-63
Agrawal AK, Suh JH, Ames BN, et al. (2009) Heightened Sulfur Amino Acid Oxidation in Plasma and Erythrocytes in β-Thalassemia Major. Blood. 114: 4065-4065
Killilea DW, Ames BN. (2008) Magnesium deficiency accelerates cellular senescence in cultured human fibroblasts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 105: 5768-73
Lal A, Atamna W, Killilea DW, et al. (2008) Lipoic acid and acetyl-carnitine reverse iron-induced oxidative stress in human fibroblasts. Redox Report : Communications in Free Radical Research. 13: 2-10
Mashiyama ST, Hansen CM, Roitman E, et al. (2008) An assay for uracil in human DNA at baseline: effect of marginal vitamin B6 deficiency. Analytical Biochemistry. 372: 21-31
Atamna H, Nguyen A, Schultz C, et al. (2008) Methylene blue delays cellular senescence and enhances key mitochondrial biochemical pathways. Faseb Journal : Official Publication of the Federation of American Societies For Experimental Biology. 22: 703-12
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