APOPTOSIS

R.M. Kluck, E. Bossy-Wetzel, D.R. Green, D.D. Newmeyer, "The release of cytochrome c from mitochondria: A primary site for Bcl-2 regulation of apoptosis," Science, 275:1132-6, 1997. (Cited in more than 410 papers since publication) Donald D. Newmeyer Xiaodong Wang Comments by Donald D. Newmeyer , an assistant member of the division of cellular immunology at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology in La Jolla, Calif. J. Yang, X. Liu, K. Bhalla, C.N. Kim, A.M. Ibrado, J. Cai, T.I

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R.M. Kluck, E. Bossy-Wetzel, D.R. Green, D.D. Newmeyer, "The release of cytochrome c from mitochondria: A primary site for Bcl-2 regulation of apoptosis," Science, 275:1132-6, 1997. (Cited in more than 410 papers since publication)


Donald D. Newmeyer

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Comments by Donald D. Newmeyer , an assistant member of the division of cellular immunology at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology in La Jolla, Calif.

J. Yang, X. Liu, K. Bhalla, C.N. Kim, A.M. Ibrado, J. Cai, T.I. Peng, D.P. Jones, X. Wang, "Prevention of apoptosis by Bcl-2: Release of cytochrome c from mitochondria blocked," Science, 275:1129-32, 1997. (Cited in more than 420 papers since publication)

Comments by Xiaodong Wang , an assistant Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and an assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Texas Southwest Medical Center in Dallas

Two years ago, these two papers inexorably linked mitochondria--the eukaryotic organelles that serve as ...

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