Induction of apoptosis in proliferating human endothelial cells by the tumor-specific antiangiogenesis agent combretastatin A-4

Cancer Research

Volumn 58, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 4510-4514

  Iyer, Sudha ^a   Chaplin, Dai J ^b   Rosenthal, Dean S ^a   Boulares, A Hamid ^a   Li, Lu Yuan ^a   Smulson, Mark E ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOUNT VERNON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; CASPASE 3; CELL MARKER; COMBRETASTATIN A4; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; DNA FRAGMENT; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LIPOCORTIN 5; PROPIDIUM IODIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME; UMBILICAL VEIN;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA FRAGMENTATION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MICE; STILBENES;

EID: 0032532391     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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