Biochemical characterization of the protein activity responsible for high molecular weight DNA fragmentation during drug-induced apoptosis

Cancer Research

Volumn 57, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 3407-3414

  Huang, Peng ^a,b   Ballal, Kalpana ^a   Plunkett, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; DNA FRAGMENT;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL FUSION; CHROMATIN; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMIA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; APHIDICOLIN; APOPTOSIS; CELL FUSION; CELL LINE; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DEOXYCYTIDINE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA, NEOPLASM; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEOSOMES; VIDARABINE;

EID: 0030841329     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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