What of apoptosis is important: The decay process or the causative origin?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 482-487

  Bongaerts, Ger P A ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID; MITOCHONDRIAL ENZYME;

ACIDITY; APOPTOSIS; BIOGENESIS; CELL DEATH; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL METABOLISM; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL RESPIRATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSPORT; CELL TURGOR; CELL TYPE; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETON; DEGENERATION; EDITORIAL; ENERGY YIELD; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FERMENTATION; GENOME; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; MITOSIS; NECROSIS; ORGANOGENESIS; OSMOSIS; OXIDATION; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL DEATH; CELL PHYSIOLOGY; ENERGY METABOLISM; HUMANS; KINETICS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOSIS;

EID: 38749088680     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2007.07.006     Document Type: Editorial

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