Adaptive roles of programmed cell death during nervous system development

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue , 2006, Pages 1-35

  Buss, Robert R ^a   Sun, Woong ^b   Oppenheim, Ronald W ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Apoptosis; Development; Evolution; Programmed cell death

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AMPHIBIA; APOPTOSIS; BIRD; CELL DEATH; CELL FUNCTION; CHORDATA; MAMMAL; NEMATODE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; REVIEW; SYNAPTOGENESIS; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 33747869352     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.neuro.29.051605.112800     Document Type: Review

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