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Next, levels of the executioner caspase 3 were examined.
In Hong Kong, the weekly Far Eastern Economic Review reported Thursday that the chief executioner of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge has become a born-again Christian and is willing to face an international tribunal.
As unchecked leads flowed from unnamed sources, the TV pundits played judge on Friday, jury on Saturday, but shied away from playing executioner on Sunday morning.
While there is extensive crosstalk between the caspases, the two most common initiator pathways are the Fas/Fas ligand pathway, involving caspase 8 and caspase 10, and the mitochondrial pathway, triggering caspase 9 [ 24 25 ] . Caspase 3, a pivotal downstream protease, functions in virtually every caspase pathway and serves as an executioner in the cells by cleavage of downstream targets which lead to irreversible chromosomal degradation.
The executioner turns the power on and off, three times in all, and in between the jolts Tafero is moving, he's nodding, his chest rises and falls.