Bcl-2-Overexpression Decreases Apoptosis Induced by Cystine Deprivation in Hepatocyes
published by Damascus University
in 2004
in Medicine
and research's language is
العربية
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Abstract in English
The Bcl-2 family of proteins has been implicated as a necessary factor in the
death caused by a large number of different agents of a wide variety of cell
types. Cystine is a precursor for the biosynthesis of the intracellular Thiol,
(glutathione) GSH.
The mechanism by which Bcl-2 resist cystine deprivation induced apoptosis
was investigated in hepatocyte Hepz/Bcl-2 and Hepz/pEF cell lines.
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