Steroid hormones act directly to trigger segment-specific programmed cell death of identified motoneurons in vitro

Developmental Biology

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 95-107

  Streichert, Laura C ^a,b   Pierce, Jonathan T ^a   Nelson, Julie A ^a   Weeks, Janis C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECDYSTEROID; ECDYSTERONE; STEROID HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DEATH; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; LEPIDOPTERA; MANDUCA SEXTA;

EID: 0031106173     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1996.8467     Document Type: Article

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