Effects of Sodium Butyrate on the Synthesis and Methylation of DNA in Normal Cells and Their Transformed Counterparts

Cancer Research

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1986, Pages 713-716

  De Haan, Judy B ^a   Gevers, Wieland ^a   Parker, M Iqbal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLCYTOSINE; BUTYRIC ACID; LEUCINE H 3; RADIOISOTOPE; THYMIDINE H 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE H 3;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; DNA METHYLATION; DRUG BINDING; DRUG EFFICACY; EMBRYO; FIBROBLAST; GAMMA RADIATION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VIRUS CELL TRANSFORMATION;

BUTYRATES; BUTYRIC ACID; BUTYRIC ACIDS; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; DNA; DNA, NEOPLASM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; METHYLATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA;

EID: 0022648947     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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