Effects of the Pineal Hormone Melatonin on the Proliferation and Morphological Characteristics of Human Breast Cancer Cells (MCF-7) in Culture

Cancer Research

Volumn 48, Issue 21, 1988, Pages 6121-6126

  Hill, Steven M ^a   Blask, David E ^b  

^a ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

BREAST CANCER; CELL CULTURE; DOSE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR CELL LINE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL DIVISION; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MELATONIN; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VACUOLES;

EID: 0023698530     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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