Bax deletion further orders the cell death pathway in cerebellar granule cells and suggests a caspase-independent pathway to cell death

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 205-217

  Miller, Timothy M ^a   Moulder, Krista L ^a   Knudson, C Michael ^a   Creedon, Douglas J ^a   Deshmukh, Mohanish ^a   Korsmeyer, Stanley J ^a   Johnson Jr , Eugene M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ETIOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GRANULE CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CELL DEATH; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBELLUM; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE DELETION; JNK MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEURONS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0030797727     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.139.1.205     Document Type: Article

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