Interdigital cell death function and regulation: New insights on an old programmed cell death model

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 245-258

  Hernández Martínez, Rocío ^a   Covarrubias, Luis ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Limb; Morphogenesis; Programmed cell death

Indexed keywords

ADAMTS1 PROTEIN; BETA CATENIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; DICKKOPF 1 PROTEIN; FIBRILLIN 2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; JAGGED1; LAMININ; NOTCH1 RECEPTOR; NOTCH2 RECEPTOR; RAC1 PROTEIN; RETINOIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MSX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MSX2; VERSICAN; WNT PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; CELL SURVIVAL; ECTODERM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; INTERDIGITAL CELL DEATH; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MESENCHYME CELL; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; REVIEW; SYNDACTYLY; TISSUE GROWTH; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL DEATH; EXTREMITIES; HUMANS; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79951828231     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2010.01246.x     Document Type: Review

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