The role of cell death in sexually dimorphic muscle development: Male-specific muscles are retained in female bax/bak knockout mice

Developmental Neurobiology

Volumn 68, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1303-1314

  Jacob, Dena A ^a   Ray, Theresa ^a   Bengston, C Lynn ^a   Lindsten, Tullia ^b   Wu, Junmin ^b   Thompson, Craig B ^b   Forger, Nancy G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bak; Bax; Bulbocavernosus; Cell death; Sex difference

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BAK; PROTEIN BAX;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BAK GENE; BAX GENE; BULBOCAVERNOSUS MUSCLE; CELL DEATH; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DELETION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LEVATOR ANI MUSCLE; MALE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2 HOMOLOGOUS ANTAGONIST-KILLER PROTEIN; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENITALIA; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PELVIC FLOOR; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 51349084951     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: 10974695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dneu.20658     Document Type: Article

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