Target muscles and sensory afferents do not influence steroid-regulated, segment-specific death of identified motoneurons in Manduca sexta

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 449-460

  Lubischer, Jane L ^a,b   Weeks, Janis C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

insect; Manduca sexta; motoneuron; programmed cell death; segmentation

Indexed keywords

ECDYSTEROID; JUVENILE HORMONE; STEROID HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; INSECT; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LEG AMPUTATION; LEPIDOPTERA; METAMORPHOSIS; MOTONEURON; NERVE TRANSECTION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL SURVIVAL; ECDYSTEROIDS; JUVENILE HORMONES; LARVA; MANDUCA; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLES; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PUPA; STEROIDS;

EID: 0029805604     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4695(199612)31:4<449::AID-NEU5>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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