Widespread elimination of naturally occurring neuronal death in Bax- deficient mice

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1428-1439

  White, Fletcher A ^b   Keller Peck, Cynthia R ^a   Michael Knudson, C ^a   Korsmeyer, Stanley J ^a   Snider, William D ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Apoptosis; BAX; Bcl 2 gene family; Motor neuron; Primary afferent neurons; Programmed cell death

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ADOLESCENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032520195     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-04-01428.1998     Document Type: Article

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