Apoptosis is not required for mammalian neural tube closure

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 8233-8238

  Massa, Valentina ^a   Savery, Dawn ^a   Ybot Gonzalez, Patricia ^a,d   Ferraro, Elisabetta ^b   Rongvaux, Anthony ^c   Cecconi, Francesco ^b   Flavell, Richard ^c   Greene, Nicholas D E ^a   Copp, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cell death; Embryo; Morphogenesis; Neurulation

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS INHIBITOR; APOPTOTIC PROTEASE ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; BENZYLOXYCARBONYLVALYLALANYLASPARTYL FLUOROMETHYL KETONE; CASPASE 3; PIFITHRIN ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION AND CELL CONTACT; CELL DEATH; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; MESENCEPHALON; MOUSE; MUTANT; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NEURAL CREST; NEURAL TUBE; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SPAIN; TISSUE CULTURE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOTIC PROTEASE-ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; CASPASE 3; CELL MOVEMENT; ECTODERM; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; MICE; NEURAL CREST; NEURAL TUBE;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 66249143041     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0900333106     Document Type: Article

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