Ras controls growth, survival and differentiation in the Drosophila eye by different thresholds of MAP kinase activity

Development

Volumn 128, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1687-1696

  Halfar, K ^a   Rommel, C ^a   Stocker, H ^a   Hafen, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cell death; Cell growth; Differentiation; Drosophila; Ras 1; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; RAS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; DROSOPHILA; EYE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RAF; RAS PROTEINS;

EID: 0034981725     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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