Downregulation of Bcl-2 proteins in type I spinal muscular atrophy motor neurons during fetal development

Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 420-426

  Soler Botija, Carolina ^a   Ferrer, Isidro ^b   Alvarez, Jose Luis ^a   Baiget, Montserrat ^a   Tizzano, Eduardo F ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bcl 2; Bcl X; Human development; Motor neuron death; SMN1; Spinal muscular atrophy

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL X;

ANTERIOR HORN CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOTONEURON; MUTATION; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0346033442     PISSN: 00223069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnen/62.4.420     Document Type: Article

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