Protection from intracellular oxidative stress by cytoglobin in normal and cancerous oesophageal cells.

Cytoglobin is an intracellular globin of unknown function that is expressed mostly in cells of a myofibroblast lineage. Possible functions of cytoglobin include buffering of intracellular oxygen and detoxification of reactive oxygen species. Previous work in our laboratory has demonstrated that cyto...

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Main Authors: Fiona E McRonald, Janet M Risk, Nikolas J Hodges
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3281032?pdf=render