bcl-2 and bak may play a pivotal role in sodium butyrate-induced apoptosis in colonic epithelial cells; however overexpression of bcl-2 does not protect against bak-mediated apoptosis

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 898-905

  Hague, Angela ^a   Díaz, G Darío ^a   Hicks, Diane J ^a   Krajewski, Stanislaw ^b   Reed, John C ^b   Paraskeva, Christos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTYRIC ACID; PROTEIN; PROTEIN BAK; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROTECTION; COLON TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADENOMA; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2 HOMOLOGOUS ANTAGONIST-KILLER PROTEIN; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BUTYRIC ACID; BUTYRIC ACIDS; COLON; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EPITHELIUM; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030809026     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19970904)72:5<898::AID-IJC30>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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