High levels of zinc ions induce loss of mitochondrial potential and degradation of antiapoptotic Bcl-2 protein in in vitro cultivated human prostate epithelial cells

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 279, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 607-614

  Untergasser, G ^a   Rumpold, H ^a   Plas, E ^b   Witkowski, M ^b   Pfister, G ^a   Berger, P ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b GENERAL HOSPITAL LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Aging; Apoptosis; Bcl 2; Mitochondria; p53; Prostate; Zinc

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BCL 2; ZINC CHLORIDE; ZINC ION;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; PHOSPHOLIPID MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE EPITHELIUM; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION;

EID: 0034694805     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2000.3975     Document Type: Article

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