Paclitaxel and water-soluble poly (L-glutamic acid)-paclitaxel, induce direct chromosomal abnormalities and cell death in a murine metastatic melanoma cell line

Anticancer Research

Volumn 17, Issue 6 D, 1997, Pages 4269-4274

  Multani, Asha S ^a   Li, Chun ^a   Ozen, Mustafa ^a   Yadav, Maneesha ^a   Yu, Dong Fang ^a   Wallace, Sidney ^a   Pathak, Sen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Cell death; Murine melanoma; Paclitaxel; Poly (L glutamic acid) paclitaxel; Telomeric associations

Indexed keywords

PACLITAXEL; PACLITAXEL DERIVATIVE; POLY(L GLUTAMIC ACID)PACLITAXEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL DESTRUCTION; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; MELANOMA CELL; METAPHASE; MITOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN METASTASIS; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; CHROMOSOMES; CLONE CELLS; KARYOTYPING; MELANOMA, EXPERIMENTAL; METAPHASE; MICE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PACLITAXEL; POLYGLUTAMIC ACID; TAXOIDS; TELOMERE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0031408456     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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