Overexpression of bcl-2 Protects Prostate Cancer Cells from Apoptosis in Vitro and Confers Resistance to Androgen Depletion in Vivo

Cancer Research

Volumn 55, Issue 19, 1995, Pages 4438-4445

  Raffo, Anthony J ^a   Perlman, Harris ^a   Chen, Min Wei ^a   Streitman, Jack S ^a   Buttyan, Ralph ^a   Day, Mark L ^b  

^a New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANOLONE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; MESSENGER RNA; NEOMYCIN; ONCOPROTEIN; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROTECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPLETION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SERUM; TUMOR VOLUME;

ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; HUMAN; MALE; MICE; ORCHIECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0029077281     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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