Apoptotic cell death, bax and bcl-2 expression during sheep mammary gland involution

Anatomia, Histologia, Embryologia

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 257-264

  Colitti, M ^b   Stefanon, B ^b   Wilde, C J ^a  

^a HANNAH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LACTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SHEEP; UDDER; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LACTATION; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; SHEEP;

EID: 0033175114     PISSN: 03402096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0264.1999.00203.x     Document Type: Article

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