Cell death in polyglutamine diseases

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 301, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 189-204

  Evert, Bernd O ^a   Wüllner, Ullrich ^a   Klockgether, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Apoptosis; Caspases; Inclusions; Neurodegeneration; Polyglutamine disease; Spinocerebellar ataxia

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; CHAPERONE; POLYGLUTAMINE; PROTEASOME; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; CELL DEATH; CELL NUCLEUS INCLUSION BODY; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DENTATORUBROPALLIDOLUYSIAN ATROPHY; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ANIMALIA; ATAXIA;

EID: 0033913225     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004410000228     Document Type: Review

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