Activation of the metaphase checkpoint and an apoptosis programme in the early zebrafish embryo, by treatment with the spindle-destabilising agent nocodazole

Zygote

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 329-350

  Ikegami, Richard ^a,b,c   Zhang, Jianshe ^a,b   Rivera Bennetts, Alma K ^a,b   Yager, Thomas D ^a,b,c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Caspases; Metaphase checkpoint; Nocodazole; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

DANIO RERIO;

CALCIMYCIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; DNA FRAGMENT; IONOPHORE; L 709049; MESSENGER RNA; N ACETYL TYROSYL VALYL ALANYL ASPARTYL CHLOROMETHYL KETONE; N-ACETYL-TYROSYL-VALYL-ALANYL-ASPARTYL CHLOROMETHYL KETONE; NOCODAZOLE; OLIGOPEPTIDE; ONCOPROTEIN; PACLITAXEL; PEPTIDE CHLOROMETHYL KETONE; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; EPITHELIUM CELL; GASTRULA; GENETICS; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROTO ONCOGENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID CHLOROMETHYL KETONES; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BLASTOCYST; CALCIMYCIN; CELL NUCLEUS; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GASTRULA; GENES, BCL-2; IONOPHORES; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; NOCODAZOLE; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PACLITAXEL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 0031267760     PISSN: 09671994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0967199400003919     Document Type: Article

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