Mitochondrial apoptosis is amplified through gap junctions

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 390, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 38-43

  Peixoto, Pablo M ^a   Ryu, Shin Young ^a   Pruzansky, Dawn Pietkiewicz ^a   Kuriakose, Maria ^b   Gilmore, Andrew ^c   Kinnally, Kathleen W ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b AMRITA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bystander effect; Cytochrome c; Gap junctions; MAC; Mitochondrial apoptosis; tBid

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; CYTOCHROME C;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BYSTANDER EFFECT; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; GAP JUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; MICROINJECTION; MITOCHONDRION; OSTEOBLAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TARGET CELL;

APOPTOSIS; BH3 INTERACTING DOMAIN DEATH AGONIST PROTEIN; BYSTANDER EFFECT; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CYTOCHROMES C; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS; MICROINJECTIONS; MITOCHONDRIA; OSTEOBLASTS;

EID: 70349958006     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2009.09.054     Document Type: Article

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