The molecular mechanism of programmed cell death in C. elegans

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 887, Issue , 1999, Pages 92-104

  Liu, Qiong A ^a   Hengartner, Michael O ^a  

^a Watson School of Biological Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEGRADATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE FUNCTION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033375493     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb07925.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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