Tales of Cannibalism, Suicide, and Murder: Programmed Cell Death in C. elegans

Current Topics in Developmental Biology

Volumn 65, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-45

  Kinchen, Jason M ^a,b   Hengartner, Michael O ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; CASPASE; CED 3 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; CED-3 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; DNA; RAC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MOTION; CYTOLOGY; DNA DAMAGE; GENDER AND SEX; GENETICS; GERM CELL; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVE CELL; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CASPASES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MOVEMENT; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; GERM CELLS; MORPHOGENESIS; NEURONS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS);

EID: 14344257249     PISSN: 00702153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-2153(04)65001-0     Document Type: Article

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