Nitric oxide-induced apoptosis in human pancreatic carcinoma cell lines is associated with a G1-arrest and an increase of the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p21(WAF1/CIP1 1)

Cell Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 611-617

  Gansauge, Susanne ^a   Nussler, Andreas K ^a   Beger, Hans G ^a   Gansauge, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; N(G) METHYLARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CARCINOMA CELL; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INDUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P21; CYCLINS; G1 PHASE; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-1; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; NITRITES; NOCODAZOLE; NUCLEOSOMES; OMEGA-N-METHYLARGININE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 0031868114     PISSN: 10449523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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