A chicken-or-egg conundrum in apoptosis: Which comes first? Ceramide or PKCδ?

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 717-719

  Grant, Steven ^a   Spiegel, Sarah ^a,b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; CASPASE 9; CERAMIDE; CYTOCHROME C; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; PALMITOYL COENZYME A; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; PROTEIN BAK; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL XL; PROTEIN KINASE C; SPHINGOMYELIN; SPHINGOMYELIN PHOSPHODIESTERASE;

ACETYLATION; APOPTOSIS; CELL DEATH; ENZYME ACTIVATION; MITOCHONDRION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SECOND MESSENGER; STRESS;

EID: 0036198759     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI0215302     Document Type: Note

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