Apoptotic cell death in retinal degenerations

Progress in Retinal and Eye Research

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 443-464

  Remé, Charlotte E ^a,b   Grimm, Christian ^a   Hafezi, Farhad ^a   Marti, Andreas ^a   Wenzel, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Department of Ophthalmology ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN C FOS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CATABOLISM; CELL DEATH; CELL STRUCTURE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTOGENESIS; LIGHT DAMAGE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; HUMANS; LIGHT; NECROSIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RADIATION INJURIES, EXPERIMENTAL; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION;

EID: 0031664966     PISSN: 13509462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-9462(98)00009-3     Document Type: Article

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