Inhibitory effect of a marine microalgal polysaccharide on the telomerase activity in K562 cells

Research Communications in Molecular Pathology and Pharmacology

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 259-265

  Sogawa, Kenichi ^a   Sumida, Tomoki ^b   Hamakawa, Hiroyuki ^b   Yamada, Takahisa ^a   Matsumoto, Kozo ^a   Matsuda, Masahiro ^c   Oda, Hironobu ^a   Miyake, Hidenori ^a   Tashiro, Seiki ^a   Okutani, Koichi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYSACCHARIDE; TELOMERASE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CYTOTOXICITY; DINOFLAGELLATE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; DINOFLAGELLIDA; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ENZYME REPRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; POLYSACCHARIDES; TELOMERASE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0031919842     PISSN: 10780297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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