Inhibition of virus-induced neuronal apoptosis by Bax

Nature Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 832-835

  Lewis, Jennifer ^a   Oyler, George A ^a   Ueno, Kazuyoshi ^b   Fannjiang, Yih Ru ^a   Chau, B Nelson ^a   Vornov, James ^a   Korsmeyer, Stanley J ^c   Zou, Shifa ^a   Hardwick, J Marie ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; GENE DELETION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOST RESISTANCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINDBIS VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BRAIN; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; CRICETINAE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GENETIC VECTORS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SINDBIS VIRUS; TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALIA; SINDBIS VIRUS;

EID: 0033021064     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/10556     Document Type: Article

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