Heavy metals and metalloids as autophagy inducing agents: Focus on cadmium and arsenic

Cells

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 597-616

  Chiarelli, Roberto ^a   Roccheri, Maria Carmela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Arsenic; Autophagy; Cadmium; Sea urchin embryos; Stress

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; CADMIUM; CASPASE; CHROMIUM; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HEAVY METAL; METALLOID; METALLOTHIONEIN; PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN KINASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

APOPTOSIS; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; AUTOPHAGY; BIOACCUMULATION; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; CYTOTOXICITY; FIBROSARCOMA; GLIOMA; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; RADIATION; REVIEW; SEA URCHIN; SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 85056746565     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/cells1030596     Document Type: Review

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