Breaking the mitochondrial barrier

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 63-67

  Martinou, Jean Claude ^a,b   Green, Douglas R ^c  

^a Sciences III   (Switzerland)

^b SERONO PHARMACEUTICAL RES INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2;

EID: 0035235419     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35048069     Document Type: Article

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