Apoptosis of larval cells during amphibian metamorphosis

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 228-235

  Ishizuya Oka, Atsuko ^a  

^a Dokkyo Uniyersity School of Medicine   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amphibia; Cell death; Cell cell interaction; Macrophage; Thyroid hormone; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

CELL DEATH; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONES;

AMPHIBIAN METAMORPHOSIS; AMPHIBIUM; CELL-CELL INTERACTION; GENES EXPRESSION; IDEAL MODEL; MODELLING SYSTEMS; PROGRAMMED CELL DEATHS; SHORT PERIODS; THYROID HORMONES; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

MACROPHAGES;

THYROID HORMONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL INTERACTION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; LARVA; MACROPHAGE FUNCTION; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TADPOLE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0029891889     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(19960615)34:3<228::AID-JEMT5>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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