BAX expression is associated with enhanced intracellular accumulation of paclitaxel: A novel role for BAX during chemotherapy-induced cell death

Cancer Research

Volumn 58, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 4776-4781

  Strobel, Thomas ^a   Kraeft, Stine Kathrein ^a   Chen, Lan Bo ^a   Cannistra, Stephen A ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; CYTOCHROME C; PACLITAXEL; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; TUBULIN; VINBLASTINE; VINCRISTINE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CARCINOMA CELL; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG ACCUMULATION; DRUG TRANSPORT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; OVARY CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; APOPTOSIS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; PACLITAXEL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VERAPAMIL; VINBLASTINE;

EID: 0032212479     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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