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Survivin acts as an antiapoptotic factor during the development of mouse preimplantation embryos.
Developmental biology - 15 Apr 2003
Kawamura Kazuhiro, Sato Naoki, Fukuda Jun, Kodama Hideya, Kumagai Jin, Tanikawa Hideo, Shimizu Yasushi, Tanaka Toshinobu
Abstract excerpt
Apoptosis is an essential physiologic process used in almost all tissues to remove damaged or superfluous cells. However, the early embryos are unique because no cell death is found up to the blastocyst stage during normal development. Survivin, a member of the IAP family, is capable of binding to caspases to modulate their functions. Here, we investigated the expression of survivin, and its role in preventing...
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