HMG-CoA reductase mediates the biological effects of retinoic acid on human neuroblastoma cells: Lovastatin specifically targets P-glycoprotein-expressing cells

Nature Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 326-333

  Dimitroulakos, Jim ^a   Yeger, Herman ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUCLADESINE; BUTYRIC ACID; DOXORUBICIN; GLYCOPROTEIN P; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; MEVINOLIN; RETINOIC ACID; VINCRISTINE;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NEUROBLASTOMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; BUCLADESINE; DNA PRIMERS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COA REDUCTASES; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; LOVASTATIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROBLASTOMA; P-GLYCOPROTEIN; TRETINOIN; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0029940090     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0396-326     Document Type: Article

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