Naturally occurring somatic motoneuron death in a teleost angelfish, Pterophyllum scalare

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 267, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 145-148

  Sakamoto, Hirotaka ^a   Yoshida, Masayuki ^a   Uematsu, Kazumasa ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angelfish; Apoptosis; Developmental cell death; Motoneuron; Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase mediated deoxyuridine triphosphate biotin nick end labeling; Ultrastructure; Ventral root

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELEOST; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FISHES; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOTOR NEURONS; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS;

EID: 0033612349     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00353-5     Document Type: Article

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