Effects of antisense-based folylpoly-γ-glutamate synthetase down-regulation on reduced folates and cellular proliferation in CCRF-CEM cells

Biochemical Pharmacology

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2031-2037

  Liu, Yinong ^a   Raghunathan, K ^a   Hill, Charles ^a   He, Yunhua ^a   Bunni, Marlene A ^a   Barredo, Julio ^a   Priest, David G ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antisense; Cellular proliferation; Folylpolyglutamate synthetase; Reduced folates

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; FOLIC ACID ANTAGONIST; FOLYLPOLYGLUTAMATE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T CELL LEUKEMIA;

DNA PRIMERS; DNA, ANTISENSE; DOWN-REGULATION; FOLIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, T-CELL; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032525917     PISSN: 00062952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-2952(98)00089-6     Document Type: Article

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