Pulse treatment with the tumor promoter TPA delays the onset of desensitization response and prolongs the inhibitory effect on gap junctional intercellular communication of a rat liver epithelial cell line WB F-344

Cancer Letters

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 117-123

  Madhukar, Burra V ^a   De Feijter Rupp, Heather L ^a   Trosko, James E ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

12 O tetradecanoylphorbol 13 acetate; Gap junctional intercellular communication; Protein kinase C

Indexed keywords

PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; PROTEIN KINASE C; TUMOR PROMOTER;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL JUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESENSITIZATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; LIVER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030598982     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3835(96)04315-7     Document Type: Article

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