Involvement of c-Jun-JNK pathways in the regulation of programmed cell death of developing chick embryo spinal cord motoneurons

Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 438-451

  Ribera, Joan ^a,b   Ayala, Victoria ^a   Casas, Celia ^a  

^a Universitat de Lleida Facultat de Medicina Sabadell   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; c Jun phosphorylation; Chick embryo; Motoneuron; Programmed cell death

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BETA BUNGAROTOXIN; MUSCIMOL; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; SERINE; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHICK EMBRYO; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIMB BUD; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR IMPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BUNGAROTOXINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHICK EMBRYO; EXTREMITIES; GABA AGONISTS; JNK MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCIMOL; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-JUN; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 34748917056     PISSN: 03785866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000097318     Document Type: Article

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