Alteration of apoptotic protease-activating factor-1 (Apaf-1)-dependent apoptotic pathway during development of rat brain and liver

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 131-135

  Ota, Katsuya ^a   Yakovlev, Alexander G ^b   Itaya, Asako ^a   Kameoka, Masanori ^a   Tanaka, Yasuharu ^a   Yoshihara, Koichiro ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apaf 1; Brain; Caspase 3; Caspase 9; Mitochondria pathway

Indexed keywords

APOPTOTIC PROTEASE ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; CASPASE; CYTOCHROME C; DEOXYADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LIVER; MITOCHONDRION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; RAT;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOTIC PROTEASE-ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; BRAIN; CASPASE 9; CASPASES; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; LIVER; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036169613     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a003067     Document Type: Article

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