Cytochrome c release from CNS mitochondria and potential for clinical intervention in apoptosis-mediated CNS diseases

Antioxidants and Redox Signaling

Volumn 7, Issue 9-10, 2005, Pages 1158-1172

  Jemmerson, Ronald ^a,c   Dubinsky, Janet M ^a   Brustovetsky, Nickolay ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C; PROTEIN BAK; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BID;

APOPTOSIS; BRAIN MITOCHONDRION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVIEW; STROKE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN; CALCIUM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CYTOCHROMES C; CYTOPLASM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERMEABILITY; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 24144495250     PISSN: 15230864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ars.2005.7.1158     Document Type: Review

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