Mercuric compounds inhibit human monocyte function by inducing apoptosis: Evidence for formation of reactive oxygen species, development of mitochondrial membrane permeability transition and loss of reductive reserve

Toxicology

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 211-224

  Insug, O ^a   Datar, Sugandha ^a   Koch, Cameron J ^a   Shapiro, Irving M ^a   Shenker, Bruce J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Glutathione; Mercury; Mitochondrial membrane permeability transition

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE; MERCURY DERIVATIVE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MONOCYTE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY BURST;

APOPTOSIS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; MITOCHONDRIA; MONOCYTES; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PERMEABILITY; PHAGOCYTOSIS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL ACETATE;

EID: 0031593221     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-483X(97)00153-4     Document Type: Article

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