Ischemic neuronal death in the rat hippocampus: the calpain–calpastatin–caspase hypothesis
Inappropriate imbalances between proteases and protease inhibitors are known to occur under cerebral ischemia and neurodegenerative processes, and could be contributors to various diseases that are characterized by excessive (ischemia, AIDS) or inadequate (cancer, autoimmunity) cell death. For insta...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2003-07-01
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Series: | Neurobiology of Disease |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969996103000184 |