An elevated bax/bcl-2 ratio corresponds with the onset of prostate epithelial cell apoptosis

Cell Death and Differentiation

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 48-54

  Perlman, Harris ^a,b,c   Zhang, Xuejun ^a   Chen, Min Wei ^a   Walsh, Kenneth ^b,c   Buttyan, Ralph ^a  

^a The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bax; Bcl 2; Castration; Prostate

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; RIBONUCLEASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE EPITHELIUM; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RIBONUCLEASE PROTECTION ASSAY; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032892149     PISSN: 13509047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.cdd.4400453     Document Type: Article

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