Mitochondria, glutamate neurotoxicity and the death cascade

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics

Volumn 1366, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 113-126

  Montal, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bcl 2; Excitotoxicity; Ion channel; Neuronal death; Protein protein interaction; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

EXCITOTOXIN; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; CELL DEATH; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CELL SURVIVAL; DIMERIZATION; EUKARYOTIC CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRION; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0032504621     PISSN: 00052728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-2728(98)00124-8     Document Type: Article

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