Live or let die - Retinal ganglion cell death and survival during development and in the lesioned adult CNS

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 483-490

  Bähr, Mathias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CASPASE; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 9; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

APOPTOSIS; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; REVIEW;

ADULT; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOTIC PROTEASE-ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BCL-ASSOCIATED DEATH PROTEIN; BCL-X PROTEIN; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CASPASES; CELL SURVIVAL; CHICK EMBRYO; GENES, BCL-2; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MITOCHONDRIA; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 0034307763     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-2236(00)01637-4     Document Type: Review

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