The heme-Bach1 pathway in the regulation of oxidative stress response and erythroid differentiation

Antioxidants and Redox Signaling

Volumn 8, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 107-118

  Igarashi, Kazuhiko ^a   Sun, Jiying ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; BILIRUBIN; BILIVERDIN; BILIVERDIN REDUCTASE; CARBON MONOXIDE; HEME; HEME OXYGENASE; HEME OXYGENASE 1; MAF RECOGNITION ELEMENT; OXIDOREDUCTASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BACH1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MAF; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CELL PROTECTION; CLINICAL PATHWAY; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; ENHANCER REGION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERYTHROPOIESIS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SWITCHING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPRESSOR GENE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ERYTHROID CELLS; FANCONI ANEMIA COMPLEMENTATION GROUP PROTEINS; GLOBINS; HEME; HEME OXYGENASE-1; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MAF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MAMMALS; MICE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33644643191     PISSN: 15230864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ars.2006.8.107     Document Type: Review

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