Apoptotic signaling in skeletal muscle fibers during atrophy

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 249-253

  Sandri, Marco ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b VENETIAN INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; APOPTOTIC PROTEASE ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; CALCIUM ION; CASPASE; CASPASE 3; CYTOCHROME C; DNA; FAS ANTIGEN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL X; PROTEIN BCL XL; SPHINGOSINE; THALIDOMIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; APOPTOSIS; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CATABOLISM; CELL FUNCTION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; CYTOSOL; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRION; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE METABOLISM; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; MUSCLE MITOCHONDRION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CASPASES; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA, MUSCLE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0036582760     PISSN: 13631950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00075197-200205000-00003     Document Type: Short Survey

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