Role of factors downstream of caspases in nuclear disassembly during apoptotic execution

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1389, 1999, Pages 1591-1599

  Samejima, Kumiko ^a   Villa, Pascal ^a   Earnshaw, William C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; CAD; Caspases; DFF; ICAD

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0033615330     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1999.0503     Document Type: Article

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