A convenient tubulin-based quantitative assay for paclitaxel (taxol) derivatives more effective in inducing assembly than the parent compound

Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 136-140

  Lin, Chii M ^a   Jiang, Yuan Q ^a   Chaudhary, Ashok G ^b   Rimoldi, John M ^b   Kingston, David G I ^b   Hamel, Ernest ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

2 debenzoyl 2 meta azidobenzoyl paclitaxel; docetaxel; glutamate; paclitaxel; tubulin based assay

Indexed keywords

2 DEBENZOYL 2 (3 AZIDOBENZOYL)PACLITAXEL; DOCETAXEL; GLUTAMIC ACID; PACLITAXEL; PACLITAXEL DERIVATIVE; TUBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG DETERMINATION; LYMPHOMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CATTLE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; PACLITAXEL; SODIUM GLUTAMATE; TUBULIN;

EID: 0029968543     PISSN: 03445704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002800050461     Document Type: Article

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