Role of sphingolipid-mediated cell death in neurodegenerative diseases

The metazoan nervous system gives rise intradevelopmentally to many more neurons than ultimately survive in the adult. Such excess cells are eliminated through programmed cell death or apoptosis. As is true for cells of other lineages, neuronal survival is sustained by an array of growth factors, su...

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Main Authors: Toshio Ariga, W. David Jarvis, Robert K. Yu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 1998-01-01
Series:Journal of Lipid Research
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022227520341985

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