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Programmed cell death in the embryonic central nervous system of Drosophila melanogaster.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Jan 2007
Rogulja-Ortmann Ana, Lüer Karin, Seibert Janina, Rickert Christof, Technau Gerhard M
Abstract excerpt
Although programmed cell death (PCD) plays a crucial role throughout Drosophila CNS development, its pattern and incidence remain largely uninvestigated. We provide here a detailed analysis of the occurrence of PCD in the embryonic ventral nerve cord (VNC). We traced the spatio-temporal pattern of PCD and compared the appearance of, and total cell numbers in, thoracic and abdominal neuromeres of wild-type and...
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