Rapamycin inhibits constitutive p70(s6k) phosphorylation, cell proliferation, and colony formation in small cell lung cancer cells

Cancer Research

Volumn 56, Issue 17, 1996, Pages 3895-3897

  Seufferlein, Thomas ^a   Rozengurt, Enrique ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P70; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; RAPAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLONY FORMING CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CELL DIVISION; HUMANS; ISOMERISM; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PHOSPHORYLATION; POLYENES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S6 KINASES; SIROLIMUS; TUMOR STEM CELLS;

EID: 0029794614     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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