Cell-death alternative model organisms: Why and which?

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 798-807

  Golstein, Pierre ^a   Aubry, Laurence ^b   Levraud, Jean Pierre ^c  

^a CENTRE D IMMUNOLOGIE DE MARSEILLE LUMINY   (France)

^b CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS INDUCING FACTOR; APOPTOTIC PROTEASE ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; ASPARTIC ACID; CASPASE; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; CYTOCHROME C; DNA; ENDONUCLEASE; PROTEIN BCL 2; SPHINGOLIPID;

APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DEATH; CELL TYPE; COELENTERATE; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; HETEROKARYON; HUMAN; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PODOSPORA ANSERINA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTOPLAST; REVIEW; SPHEROID CELL; ZEBRA FISH;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COELENTERATA; DANIO RERIO; DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; PODOSPORA ANSERINA;

EID: 0141925946     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1224     Document Type: Review

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