Studying apoptosis in Drosophila

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

Volumn 2015, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 609-613

  Denton, Donna ^a   Kumar, Sharad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEIN; CASPASE; CASPASE 8; CYTOCHROME C; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INHIBITOR OF APOPTOSIS PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL MATURATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GRIM GENE; HID GENE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUNEL ASSAY; UBIQUITINATION; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CYTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL LINE; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DROSOPHILA;

EID: 84934756879     PISSN: 19403402     EISSN: 15596095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/pdb.top070433     Document Type: Article

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