Genetic control of programmed cell death in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

Cancer Research

Volumn 59, Issue 7 SUPPL., 1999, Pages

  Horvitz, H Robert ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CANCER GENETICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE CONTROL; MODEL; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTO ONCOGENE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HUMANS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0033119367     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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