Defective neural tube morphogenesis and altered apoptosis in the absence of both JNK1 and JNK2

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 89, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 115-124

  Sabapathy, Kanaga ^a   Jochum, Wolfram ^a   Hochedlinger, Konrad ^a   Chang, Lufen ^b   Karin, Michael ^b   Wagner, Erwin F ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; c Jun NH2 terminal kinase; Exencephaly; JNK1; JNK2; Neural tube; Neural tube closure

Indexed keywords

STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EXENCEPHALY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN; CELL DIVISION; FETAL DEATH; GENE DOSAGE; JNK MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 9; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; PROTEIN KINASES;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032724021     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(99)00213-0     Document Type: Article

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