Insulin treatment inhibits glucose and glutamine metabolism in tumor cells from walker 256 tumor-bearing rats

Cancer Research Therapy and Control

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 35-40

  Fernandes, L C ^a   Costa Rosa, L F B P ^a   Machado, U F ^a   Curi, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Enzyme activity; Glucose and glutamine metabolism; GLUT1; Insulin; Tumor growth; Walker 256

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; CITRATE SYNTHASE; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUTAMINASE; GLUTAMINE; HEXOKINASE; INSULIN; LACTIC ACID;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CACHEXIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; INSULIN TREATMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR GROWTH; WALKER CARCINOMA;

EID: 0030475490     PISSN: 10640525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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