Expression of caspase and BCL-2 apoptotic family members in mouse preimplantation embryos

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 231-239

  Exley, Ginger E ^a   Tang, Chaoyu ^a   McElhinny, Abigail S ^a   Warner, Carol M ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; DNA FRAGMENT; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DEGRADATION; EMBRYO; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BLASTOCYST; CASPASES; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RNA, MESSENGER; ZYGOTE;

EID: 0033057007     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod61.1.231     Document Type: Article

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