Sphingosine and its methylated derivative N,N-dimethylsphingosine (DMS) induce apoptosis in a variety of human cancer cell lines

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 358-366

  Sweeney, Elizabeth A ^a   Sakakura, Chouhei ^a   Shirahama, Tsutomu ^a   Masamune, Atsushi ^a   Ohta, Hideki ^a   Hakomori, Sen Itiroh ^a   Igarashi, Yasuyuki ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b The Biomembrane Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUMONISIN B1; N,N DIMETHYLSPHINGOSINE; N,N,N TRIMETHYLSPHINGOSINE; SPHINGOSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL LINE; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CELLS, CULTURED; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DNA, NEOPLASM; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GLOMERULAR MESANGIUM; HL-60 CELLS; HUMANS; KINETICS; RATS; SPHINGOSINE; TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL ACETATE; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; UMBILICAL VEINS;

EID: 0030004270     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19960503)66:3<358::AID-IJC16>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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