Cloning of the 3' end of rat bax-α and corresponding developmental down-regulation in differentiating primary, cultured oligodendrocytes

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 220, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 183-186

  Madison, Dana L ^a   Pfeiffer, Steven E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bax ; Bcl; CDNA sequence; Development; Myelin; Oligodendrocyte

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MYELIN;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGODENDROGLIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DOWN-REGULATION; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROGLIA; OLIGODENDROGLIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0030596133     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(96)13263-8     Document Type: Article

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