Inhibitory effects of a novel marine terpenoid on sensitive and multidrug resistant KB cell lines

Anticancer Research

Volumn 18, Issue 4 C, 1998, Pages 3027-3032

  Pec, Martina K ^a   Hellan, Minia ^a   Moser Thier, Karin ^a   Fernández, José J ^b   Souto, Maria L ^b   Kubista, Ernst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cell cycle; Clonogenic growth in soft agar; Dehydrothyrsiferol; Epidermoid cancer cell lines; Growth inhibition; MDR P glycoprotein

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN P; TERPENOID;

ARTICLE; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRAIN KB; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; APOPTOSIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; HUMANS; KB CELLS; NECROSIS; P-GLYCOPROTEIN; PYRANS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERPENES;

EID: 0031814730     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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