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Involvement of human heat shock protein 90α in nicotine‐induced apoptosis
29 May 2002
Abstract excerpt
There have been conflicting reports of the apoptotic effects of nicotine on human cells and those studies reporting nicotine-induced apoptosis have not unequivocally clarified the molecular mechanisms underlying the effect. However, we found here that human RSa cells, established from embryonic fibroblastic cells doubly infected with Rous sarcoma virus and Simian virus 40, underwent apoptosis when cultured with...
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