Recent progress on the regulation of apoptosis by Bcl-2 family members

Advances in Immunology

Volumn 70, Issue , 1998, Pages 245-279

  Minn, Andy J ^a,b   Swain, Rachel E ^b   Ma, Averil ^b   Thompson, Craig B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL X;

APOPTOSIS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0033491603     PISSN: 00652776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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