• DOI:10.1073/pnas.012685199
Corpus ID: 30298986

The jaundice of the cell

@article{Greenberg2002TheJO,
  title={The jaundice of the cell},
  author={D. Greenberg},
  journal={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
  year={2002},
  volume={99},
  pages={15837 - 15839}
}

D. Greenberg

Published 2002

Medicine

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

“Fair is foul and foul is fair” (so say the witches in the opening scene of Macbeth ), and examples of this paradox abound in biology. Life-giving oxygen is also the source of cytotoxic oxidative stress; lethal gases like carbon monoxide are neurotransmitters that, among other things, facilitate reproduction (1). Another example is that of bilirubin, formerly dismissed as a waste product, whose image has been burnished by evolving evidence for a role in protecting cells from injury (2, 3). The… CONTINUE READING

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