Nanosecond pulsed electric fields (nsPEFs) activate intrinsic caspase-dependent and caspase-independent cell death in Jurkat cells

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 421, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 808-812

  Ren, Wei ^a,b   Sain, Nova M ^a   Beebe, Stephen J ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

APAF 1; Apoptosis; Caspases; Cytochrome c death induced signaling complex; Electric fields; Electroporation; Jurkat clones

Indexed keywords

APOPTOTIC PROTEASE ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; CASPASE; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 7; CASPASE 9; CYTOCHROME C; FAS LIGAND;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL PERMEABILIZATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LD 50; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MITOCHONDRION; NANOSECOND PULSED ELECTRIC FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED ELECTRIC FIELD;

APOPTOSIS; APOPTOTIC PROTEASE-ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 7; CASPASES; CATALYSIS; CYTOCHROMES C; DEATH DOMAIN RECEPTOR SIGNALING ADAPTOR PROTEINS; ELECTRICITY; HUMANS; JURKAT CELLS; NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84861221983     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2012.04.094     Document Type: Article

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