Intracellular ion channels and cancer

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 4 SEP, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Leanza, Luigi ^a   Biasutto, Lucia ^a   Managò, Antonella ^a   Gulbins, Erich ^b   Zoratti, Mario ^a   Szabò, Ildikò ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cancer; Ion channel; Organelles; Pharmacology

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SENSITIVE POTASSIUM CHANNEL; CELL PROTEIN; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; INOSITOL 1,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE RECEPTOR; INTERMEDIATE CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; ION CHANNEL; LARGE CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; MITOCHONDRIAL PERMEABILITY TRANSITION PORE; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; PORIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KV1.3; PROTEIN BAK; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL XL; STROMAL INTERACTION MOLECULE 1; TANDEM PORE DOMAIN POTASSIUM CHANNEL; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL M8; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 2; VOLTAGE DEPENDENT ANION CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED CHLORIDE CHANNEL;

APOPTOSIS; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DEATH; CELL FUNCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENZYME REGULATION; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR PORE; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR GROWTH;

EID: 84884540088     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2013.00227     Document Type: Short Survey

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