Regulation of cell death: The calcium-apoptosis link

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 552-565

  Orrenius, Sten ^a   Zhivotovsky, Boris ^a   Nicotera, Pierluigi ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); ANION CHANNEL; APOPTOTIC PROTEASE ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; CALCINEURIN; CALCIUM; CALMODULIN; CALPAIN; CARDIOLIPIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; CASPASE; CASPASE 2; CD31 ANTIGEN; CYCLOSPORIN A; CYTOCHROME C; DEXAMETHASONE; ENDONUCLEASE; GRANZYME A; INOSITOL 1,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 2A; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN GLUTAMINE GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEINASE;

APOPTOSIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOPHAGY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CANCER; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL DEATH; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL SURVIVAL; CROSS LINKING; CYTOTOXICITY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; HUMAN; MAMMAL CELL; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM SIGNALING; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; NECROSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0038464650     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1150     Document Type: Review

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