Activation of caspase-8 in transforming growth factor-β-induced apoptosis of human hepatoma cells

Hepatology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1215-1222

  Shima, Yuka ^a   Nakao, Kazuhiko ^a   Nakashima, Tomoki ^a   Kawakami, Atsushi ^a   Nakata, Keisuke ^a   Hamasaki, Keisuke ^a   Kato, Yuji ^a   Eguchi, Katsumi ^a   Ish, Nobuko ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FAS ANTIGEN; FAS LIGAND; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL X; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; HEPATOMA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KINETICS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANTIGENS, CD95; APOPTOSIS; BCL-X PROTEIN; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; CASPASES; CELL DIVISION; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; KINETICS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032711511     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.510300503     Document Type: Article

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