Germ cell apoptosis and DNA damage responses

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 757, Issue , 2013, Pages 249-276

  Bailly, Aymeric ^a   Gartner, Anton ^b  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; DNA damage response; DNA repair; Meiosis checkpoints; Recombination

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN CEP 1; PROTEIN MPK 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL DEATH; CELL FUNCTION; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DNA DAMAGE; DNA DAMAGE CHECKPOINT; DNA REPAIR; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84867539316     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4015-4_9     Document Type: Article

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