Engulfment pathways promote programmed cell death by enhancing the unequal segregation of apoptotic potential

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Chakraborty, Sayantan ^a   Lambie, Eric J ^a   Bindu, Samik ^a,b   Mikeladze Dvali, Tamara ^a   Conradt, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN;

MEMBRANE; NEMATODE; PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NEURONS;

EID: 84949677999     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10126     Document Type: Article

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