Apoptosis in living animals is assisted by scavenger cells and thus may not mainly go through the cytochrome c-caspase pathway

Journal of Cancer

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 716-723

  Liu, Bingya ^a   Xu, Ningzhi ^b   Man, Yangao ^c   Shen, Haihong ^d   Avital, Itzhak ^c   Stojadinovic, Alexander ^c   Liao, D Joshua ^e  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b CANCER HOSPITAL   (China)

^c Bon Secours Cancer Institute   (United States)

^d Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; C caspase pathway; Scavengers

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; CYTOCHROME C;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELLS; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; SCAVENGER CELL;

EID: 84893588695     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18379664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7150/jca.7577     Document Type: Article

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