Calmodulin mediates sulfur mustard toxicity in human keratinocytes

Toxicology

Volumn 227, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 21-35

  Simbulan Rosenthal, Cynthia M ^a   Ray, Radharaman ^b   Benton, Betty ^b   Soeda, Emiko ^a   Daher, Ahmad ^a   Anderson, Dana ^b   Smith, William J ^b   Rosenthal, Dean S ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b US ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL DEFENSE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Calcineurin; CaM; Caspase 3; SM

Indexed keywords

1 [N,O BIS(5 ISOQUINOLINESULFONYL) N METHYLTYROSYL] 4 PHENYLPIPERAZINE; CALCINEURIN; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CALMODULIN; CALMODULIN INHIBITOR; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 6; CASPASE 7; CASPASE 9; CYCLOSPORIN A; FAS ANTIGEN; MUSTARD GAS; N (4 AMINOBUTYL) 2 NAPSYLAMIDE; N (4 AMINOBUTYL) 5 CHLORO 2 NAPSYLAMIDE; N [2 [[N [3 (4 CHLOROPHENYL) 2 PROPENYL] N METHYLAMINO]METHYL]PHENYL] N (2 HYDROXYETHYL) 4 METHOXYBENZENESULFONAMIDE; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN BAD; RETROVIRUS VECTOR; RNA;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; KERATINOCYTE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN; UPREGULATION;

APOPTOSIS; BCL-ASSOCIATED DEATH PROTEIN; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CALCINEURIN; CALCIUM-CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; CALMODULIN; CASPASE 3; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; MITOCHONDRIA; MUSTARD GAS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 33748749702     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2006.06.019     Document Type: Article

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