HBx Sensitizes Cells to Oxidative Stress-induced Apoptosis by Accelerating the Loss of Mcl-1 Protein via Caspase-3 Cascade

Molecular Cancer

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Hu, Liang ^a   Chen, Lei ^a   Yang, GuangZhen ^a   Li, Liang ^a   Sun, HanYong ^a   Chang, YanXin ^a   Tu, QianQian ^a   Wu, MengChao ^b   Wang, HongYang ^a,c  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b EASTERN HEPATOBILIARY SURGERY HOSPITAL   (China)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CASPASE 3 INHIBITOR; HEPATITIS B VIRUS X PROTEIN; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN MCL 1; MYELOID CELL LEUKEMIA SEQUENCE 1 PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIVER CELL; LIVER ISCHEMIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CELL STRAIN HEPG2; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; LIVER; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VASCULARIZATION;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; HEK293 CELLS; HEP G2 CELLS; HUMANS; LIVER; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFECTION; WARM ISCHEMIA;

EID: 79954600763     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14764598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-4598-10-43     Document Type: Article

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