Caspase knockouts: Matters of life and death

Cell Death and Differentiation

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1043-1053

  Zheng, T S ^a,c   Hunot, S ^a   Kuida, K ^b   Flavell, R A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

^c BIOGEN   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Caspase; Development; Gene targeting; Negative selection; Neuronal cell death

Indexed keywords

CASPASE;

APOPTOSIS; DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTOSIS; HEART DEVELOPMENT; INFLAMMATION; KNOCKOUT GENE; MITOCHONDRION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0032777272     PISSN: 13509047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.cdd.4400593     Document Type: Review

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