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Apoptosis--the Calcium Connection

Author(s) -

Nicolas Demaurex,

Clark Distelhorst

Publication year - 2003

Publication title -

science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 12.556

H-Index - 1186

eISSN - 1095-9203

pISSN - 0036-8075

DOI - 10.1126/science.1083628

Subject(s) - calcium , connection (principal bundle) , apoptosis , ionic bonding , chemistry , self healing hydrogels , polysaccharide , microbiology and biotechnology , biophysics , biochemistry , ion , biology , engineering , polymer chemistry , organic chemistry , structural engineering

Calcium ions are crucial to many cellular processes including apoptosis. In their Perspective, Demaurex and Distelhorst explain new work that shows how calcium ions flowing between the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and mitochondria regulate programmed cell death, highlighting the ER as a new gateway to apoptosis ( Scorrano et al.).

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