Short exposures to tunicamycin induce apoptosis in SV40-transformed but not in normal human fibroblasts

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2589-2596

  Carlberg, Magdalena ^a   Dricu, Anica ^a   Blegen, Harald ^a   Kass, George E N ^b   Orrenius, Sten ^a   Larsson, Olle ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA; GLYCOPROTEIN; PROPIDIUM IODIDE; THAPSIGARGIN; TUNICAMYCIN;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL DEATH; CELL LOSS; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DRUG EFFECT; FIBROBLAST; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; SIMIAN VIRUS 40;

APOPTOSIS; CALCIUM; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; DNA; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FIBROBLASTS; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMANS; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; THAPSIGARGIN; TUNICAMYCIN;

EID: 0030450126     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/17.12.2589     Document Type: Article

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