Cell death or survival: The double-edged sword of environmental and occupational toxicity

Chemico-Biological Interactions

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 265-266

  Franco, Rodrigo ^a   Panayiotidis, Mihalis I ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carcinogenesis; Cell death; Environmental stress; Oxidative stress

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; BRCA1 PROTEIN; CELL DNA; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; FLUORIDE; METAL; METHYLMERCURY; PESTICIDE; POLLUTANT;

APOPTOSIS; CELL DEATH; CELL FATE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA DAMAGE; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EPIGENETICS; FLUOROSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; LUNG CANCER; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PUBLIC HEALTH; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; NEOPLASM; POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OXIDATIVE STRESS;

EID: 77956648982     PISSN: 00092797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbi.2010.06.002     Document Type: Editorial

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