Stimulus-specific and cell type-specific cascades: Emerging principles relating to control of apoptosis in the eye

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 255-266

  Wilson, Steven E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bax; Bcl; Caspases; Cornea; Disease; Fas; Gene therapy; Glaucoma; Inhibitors; Lens; p35; p53; Pathophysiology; Regulation; Retina; Retinal degeneration; Transgenic animals; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; FAS ANTIGEN; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL X; PROTEIN P53;

APOPTOSIS; CELL DEATH; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE THERAPY; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; LENS; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

EID: 0032880366     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exer.1999.0698     Document Type: Review

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