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Exposure to airborne particles is associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. During the combustion of chlorine-containing hazardous materials and fuels, chlorinated hydrocarbons chemisorb to the surface of transition metal-oxide-containing particles, reduce the metal, and form
BACKGROUND
Recently, the apoptotic volume decrease was suggested to be regulated by volume regulatory Cl- channels in cultured cell lines. We thus examined whether inhibition of volume-regulatory Cl- channels is cardioprotective, like caspase inhibition, by hindering the apoptosis of cardiomyocytes
Caspases play a critical role in the cell death machinery in various cell types. Here we investigated the involvement of caspases in the delayed neuronal death after transient global forebrain ischaemia in the gerbil. Intrahippocampal injection of benzyloxycarbonyl-Asp-CH2-dichlorobenzene (zD), an