bax Deficiency prevents the increased cell death of immature neurons in bcl-x-deficient mice

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 3112-3119

  Shindler, Kenneth S ^a   Latham, Cecelia B ^a   Roth, Kevin A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

apoptosis; bax; bcl 2; bcl x; development; programmed cell death

Indexed keywords

DEOXYURIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE DERIVATIVE; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE TARGETING; MALE; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; SPINAL CORD; TELENCEPHALON;

EID: 0030898680     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-09-03112.1997     Document Type: Article

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