EGF signaling overcomes a uterine cell death associated with temporal mis-coordination of organogenesis within the C. elegans egg-laying apparatus

Developmental Biology

Volumn 300, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 599-611

  Huang, Li ^a   Hanna Rose, Wendy ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; cog 3; ida 1; let 23; lin 28; lin 3; Necrotic cell death; Temporal development; Uterus; uv1

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GONAD; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UTERUS; VULVA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 33845389236     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2006.08.024     Document Type: Article

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