A developmental timer that regulates apoptosis at the onset of gastrulation

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 69, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 183-195

  Hensey, Carmel ^a   Gautier, Jean ^a  

^a The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Developmental timer; Midblastula transition; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BCL 2;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DEATH; DNA DAMAGE; EMBRYO; FERTILIZATION; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLASTOCYST; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FETAL DEATH; GASTRULA; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; STAINING AND LABELING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XENOPUS;

EID: 0031405590     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(97)00191-3     Document Type: Article

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