Proapoptotic Bcl-2 family members, Bax and Bak, are essential for developmental photoreceptor apoptosis

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 3598-3605

  Hahn, Paul ^a,b   Lindsten, Tullia ^a,c   Ying, Gui Shuang ^a   Bennett, Jean ^a   Milam, Ann H ^a   Thompson, Craig B ^a,c   Dunaief, Joshua L ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d Stellar Chance Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BAK; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; EYE DEVELOPMENT; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; ARRESTIN; BCL-2 HOMOLOGOUS ANTAGONIST-KILLER PROTEIN; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; EYE PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENE DELETION; HIPPOCALCIN; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LIPOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OPSIN; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RECOVERIN; RETINA;

EID: 0041842699     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.02-1113     Document Type: Article

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