Identification of caspases and apoptosis in the simple metazoan Hydra

Current Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 959-962

  Cikala, Mihai ^a   Wilm, Bettina ^a   Hobmayer, Engelbert ^b   Böttger, Angelika ^a   David, Charles N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; HEXAPODA; HYDRA; HYDRA VULGARIS; MAMMALIA; METAZOA; NEMATODA; VERMES;

EID: 0033539017     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(99)80423-0     Document Type: Article

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