Understanding endothelial cell apoptosis: What can the transcriptome, glycome and proteome reveal?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1484, 2007, Pages 1469-1487

  Affara, Muna ^a   Dunmore, Benjamin ^a   Savoie, Christopher ^b   Imoto, Seiya ^c   Tamada, Yoshinori ^a,d   Araki, Hiromitsu ^b   Charnock Jones, D Stephen ^a   Miyano, Satoru ^c   Print, Cristin ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b GNI Ltd   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Endothelial cell; Gene network; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; BIOINFORMATICS; CARBOHYDRATE; GENE; HOMEOSTASIS; PROTEOMICS; RNA;

EID: 34547611096     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2129     Document Type: Review

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