Selective killing of human cancer cells by polyunsaturated fatty acids

Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1985, Pages 177-186

  Begin M E ^a   Das, U N ^a   Ells, G ^a   Horrobin, D F ^a  

^a Efamol Limited   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ARACHIDONIC ACID; DIHOMO GAMMA LINOLENIC ACID; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; GAMMA LINOLENIC ACID; ICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; LINOLEIC ACID; LINOLENIC ACID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

BREAST; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL CULTURE; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG EFFICACY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTOXICATION; LUNG; LUNG CANCER; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CANCER; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; TUMOR CELL DESTRUCTION;

ALPHA-LINOLENIC ACID; ANIMAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; DOGS; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; GAMMA-LINOLENIC ACID; HUMAN; LINOLENIC ACIDS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0021813218     PISSN: 02621746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0262-1746(85)90084-8     Document Type: Article

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