Apoptosis in Xenopus tadpole tail muscles involves Bax-dependent pathways

FASEB Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 801-808

  Sachs, Laurent M ^a   Abdallah, Bassima ^a   Hassan, Ahmed ^a   Levi, Giovanni ^a,b   De Luze, Amaury ^a   Reed, John C ^c   Demeneix, Barbara A ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b CENTRO DI BIOTECNOLOGIE AVANZATE   (Italy)

^c BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

In vivo gene transfer; Metamorphosis; Thyroid hormone

Indexed keywords

DNA; LIOTHYRONINE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN BAX;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE TRANSFER; METAMORPHOSIS; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TADPOLE; TAIL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; PHRAGMITES; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0030854572     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.11.10.9271365     Document Type: Article

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