Steroid-triggered, cell-autonomous death of a Drosophila motoneuron during metamorphosis

Neural Development

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Winbush, Ari ^a,b   Weeks, Janis C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; ECDYSTERONE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROPIDIUM IODIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; INSECT; LARVA; METABOLISM; METAMORPHOSIS; MOTONEURON; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CELL DEATH; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ECDYSTERONE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; PROPIDIUM; PUPA;

EID: 79955128217     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8104-6-15     Document Type: Article

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