Gain of bcl-2 is more potent than Bax loss in regulating mammary epithelial cell survival in vivo

Cancer Research

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2541-2545

  Schorr, Kristel ^a   Li, Minglin ^a   Bar Peled, Ud ^a   Lewis, Albert ^a   Heredia, Alonso ^a   Lewis, Bernadette ^a   Knudson, C Michael ^b   Korsmeyer, Stanley J ^b   Jäger, Richard ^c   Weiher, Hans ^d   Furth, Priscilla A ^a,e  

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

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d Diabetesforschung   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST EPITHELIUM; CELL DEATH; CELL LOSS; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE TARGETING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CELL SURVIVAL; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MICE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2;

EID: 0033152120     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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