Calpain inhibitors as therapeutic agents in nerve and muscle degeneration

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 884, Issue , 1999, Pages 52-59

  Stracher, Alfred ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; CALPAIN; CALPASTATIN; LEUPEPTIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CATARACTOGENESIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; HAIR CELL; HUMAN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE INJURY; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPIRAL GANGLION; STROKE; TISSUE DEGENERATION; TISSUE NECROSIS;

EID: 0032779857     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb08635.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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