Programmed elimination of cells by caspase-independent cell extrusion in C. elegans

Nature

Volumn 488, Issue 7410, 2012, Pages 226-230

  Denning, Daniel P ^a   Hatch, Victoria ^a   Robert Horvitz, H ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; PROTEIN KINASE LKB1; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 4;

APOPTOSIS; CELL ORGANELLE; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOSTASIS; HOMOLOGY; MAMMAL; METAZOAN; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; MUTATION; NEMATODE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL STRUCTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC CELL;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CASPASES; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CELL SHAPE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENDOCYTOSIS; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUTATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA; METAZOA;

EID: 84864645131     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11240     Document Type: Article

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