Oxythiamine and dehydroepiandrosterone inhibit the nonoxidative synthesis of ribose and tumor cell proliferation

Cancer Research

Volumn 57, Issue 19, 1997, Pages 4242-4248

  Boros, Laszlo G ^a   Puigjaner, Joaquim ^b   Cascante, Marta ^b   Lee, Wai Nang Paul ^c   Brandes, James L ^a   Bassilian, Sara ^c   Yusuf, Fouza I ^a   Williams, Robert D ^d   Muscarella, Pete ^a   Melvin, W Scott ^a   Schirmer, William J ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME INHIBITOR; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; OXYTHIAMINE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; TRANSKETOLASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER MODEL; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EHRLICH ASCITES TUMOR CELL; ENZYME INHIBITION; GLYCOLYSIS; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, EHRLICH TUMOR; CELL DIVISION; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE; GLUCOSEPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; OXYTHIAMINE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE PATHWAY; RIBOSE; RNA, NEOPLASM; TRANSKETOLASE; TRIOSE-PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR STEM CELLS;

EID: 0030758923     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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