Human skeletal muscle cytosols are refractory to cytochrome c-dependent activation of type-II caspases and lack APAF-1

Cell Death and Differentiation

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 256-261

  Burgess, David H ^a   Svensson, Michael ^a   Dandrea, Tiziana ^a   Grönlund, Karina ^a   Hammarquist, Folke ^b   Orrenius, Sten ^a   Cotgreave, Ian A ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b ST GÖRAN S HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

APAF 1; Cytochrome c; Skeletal muscle; Type II caspases

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; CASPASE 3; CYTOCHROME C; DEOXYADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; PROTEINASE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOSOL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXERCISE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE INJURY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

EID: 0033046572     PISSN: 13509047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.cdd.4400489     Document Type: Article

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