The absence of c-fos prevents light-induced apoptotic cell death of photoreceptors in retinal degeneration in vivo

Nature Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 346-349

  Hafezi, Farhad ^a   Steinbach, Joachim P ^a   Marti, Andreas ^a   Munz, Kurt ^a   Wang, Zhao Q I ^b   Wagner, Erwin F ^b   Aguzzi, Adriano ^a   Remé, Charlotte E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIGHT; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, FOS; HUMANS; LIGHT; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RATS; RETINAL DEGENERATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031054783     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0397-346     Document Type: Article

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