A tale of death and life: Natural apoptosis in the colonial ascidian Botryllus schlosseri (Urochordata, Ascidiacea)

Current Pharmaceutical Design

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 138-147

  Ballarin, Loriano ^a   Burighel, Paolo ^a   Cima, Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Ascidians; Blastogenetic cycle; Botryllus; Haemocytes

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CD36 ANTIGEN; DEAD BOX PROTEIN; LIPOCORTIN 5; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; TELOMERASE;

APOPTOSIS; ASCIDIACEA; BLOOD CELL; CELL AGING; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL LABELING; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; LIFE CYCLE; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFORMATION; METAMORPHOSIS; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; UROCHORDATA; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL AGING; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; PHAGOCYTOSIS; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 38949201005     PISSN: 13816128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138161208783378798     Document Type: Review

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