Mouse vaginal opening is an apoptosis-dependent process which can be prevented by the overexpression of Bcl2

Developmental Biology

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 115-121

  Rodriguez, Ivan ^a,c   Araki, Kimi ^a   Khatib, Karim ^a   Martinou, Jean Claude ^b   Vassalli, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; VAGINA;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0031127855     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1997.8522     Document Type: Article

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