Methionine depletion modulates the antitumor and antimetastatic efficacy of ethionine

Anticancer Research

Volumn 16, Issue 5 A, 1996, Pages 2719-2723

  Guo, Huiyan ^a   Tan, Yuying ^a   Kubota, Tetsuro ^c   Moossa, A R ^b   Hoffman, Robert M ^a,b  

^a ANTICANCER INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antimetastatic; Antitumor; Ethionine; Methionine depletion; Modulation

Indexed keywords

ETHIONINE; METHIONINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET THERAPY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENTIATION; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METASTASIS INHIBITION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WEIGHT REDUCTION; YOSHIDA SARCOMA;

ANIMALS; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; DRUG SCREENING ASSAYS, ANTITUMOR; ETHIONINE; METHIONINE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; SARCOMA, YOSHIDA;

EID: 0029957204     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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