Early neural cell death: Dying to become neurons

Developmental Biology

Volumn 274, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 233-244

  Yeo, Weeteck ^a   Gautier, Jean ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental PCD; Early neural cell death; Early neural development; Neurogenesis; Programmed cell death

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; GROWTH FACTOR; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; WNT PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL COUNT; CELL DAMAGE; CELL DEATH; CELL FUNCTION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROTROPISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ERINACEIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 4644370139     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2004.07.026     Document Type: Review

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