Expression and regulation of genes associated with cell death during murine preimplantation embryo development

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 243-253

  Jurisicova, Andrea ^a,b   Latham, Keith E ^c   Casper, Robert F ^b   Varmuza, Susannah L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Gene expression; Preimplantation embryo

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; BCL-ASSOCIATED DEATH PROTEIN; BCL-X PROTEIN; BLASTOCYST; CARRIER PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REGULATOR; HUMANS; MICE; PREGNANCY; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0031692107     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199811)51:3<243::AID-MRD3>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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