RhoA prevents apoptosis during zebrafish embryogenesis through activation of Mek/Erk pathway

Oncogene

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1580-1589

  Zhu, S ^a   Korzh, V ^a,b   Gong, Z ^a   Low, B C ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bcl 2; Embryogenesis; Mek Erk; RhoA; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

1,4 DIAMINO 1,4 BIS(2 AMINOPHENYLTHIO) 2,3 DICYANOBUTADIENE; 2 AMINO 6 BROMO 4 (1 CYANO 2 ETHOXY 2 OXOETHYL) 4H CHROMENE 3 CARBOXYLIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; ANTHRA[1,9 CD]PYRAZOL 6(2H) ONE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN BCL 2; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSLATION; ZEBRA FISH;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BENZOPYRANS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BUTADIENES; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MAP KINASE KINASE 1; MICE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; NITRILES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RHOA GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFECTION; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 40449087736     PISSN: 09509232     EISSN: 14765594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1210790     Document Type: Article

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