McNeill H, Downward J
Developmental Patterning Laboratory, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX, UK.
Curr Biol. 1999 Mar 11;9(5):R176-9. doi: 10.1016/s0960-9822(99)80107-9.
Programmed cell death has seemed to be regulated in quite different ways in mammals and Drosophila. Recent results on the way Ras and downstream pathways can influence cell-death induction suggest the regulatory pathways in these distinct organisms might be more similar than was at first sight apparent.