Alkylphosphocholines (APCs) represent a new and very encouraging class of antitumour agents that have also been shown to induce apoptosis in tumour cells, but their exact mode of action has still not been elucidated...
Keywords: Bid, caspase activation, mitochondria, mitochondrial membrane permeabilisation, S-NC-2
03/2005 | Biological Chemistry, Walter de GruyterApoptosis is the major mechanism by which eukaryotic organisms eliminate potentially dangerous, superfluous and damaged cells...
Keywords: BH3-only protein, Bid, caspases, cathepsins, extrinsic pathway, intrinsic pathway, lysosomes
06/2007 | Biological Chemistry, Walter de Gruyter