Radiation- and heat-induced apoptosis in PC-3 prostate cancer cells

Radiation Research

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 190-194

  Li, William X ^a   Franklin, William A ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER;

APOPTOSIS; GAMMA RAYS; HEAT; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, HORMONE-DEPENDENT; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0031872396     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3579854     Document Type: Article

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