Ceramide-induced cell death in lens epithelial cells

Molecular Vision

Volumn 13, Issue , 2007, Pages 1618-1626

  Samadi, Abbas ^a  

^a A T STILL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 (4,5 DIMETHYL 2 THIAZOLYL) 2,5 DIPHENYLTETRAZOLIUM BROMIDE; 4',6 DIAMIDINO 2 PHENYLINDOLE; C2 CERAMIDE; C2 DIHYDROCERAMIDE; C6 CERAMIDE; CASPASE; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 7; CERAMIDE; DICHLOROFLUORESCEIN; DNA FRAGMENT; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SPHINGOMYELIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CELL DEATH; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LENS EPITHELIUM; LIPID PEROXIDATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STAINING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CASPASES; CATTLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CERAMIDES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SPHINGOSINE; TIME FACTORS;

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