L-Canavanine modulates cellular growth, chemosensitivity and P-glycoprotein substrate accumulation in cultured human tumor cell lines

Cancer Letters

Volumn 132, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 229-239

  Worthen, David R ^a,b   Chien, Lynn ^a   Tsuboi, Clifford P ^a   Mu, Xi Y ^c   Bartik, Mary M ^c   Crooks, Peter A ^a,b  

^a University of Kentucky   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Doxorubicin; L canavanine; Multidrug resistance; P glycoprotein

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ARGININE; BLEOMYCIN; BROMINE DERIVATIVE; CANAVANINE; CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; GLYCOPROTEIN P; MITOXANTRONE; TETRAZOLIUM;

ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG DNA INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ION TRANSPORT; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR CELL CULTURE; UTERUS SARCOMA;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CANAVANINE; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; DOXORUBICIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; HUMANS; INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION 50; K562 CELLS; P-GLYCOPROTEINS; QUININE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VINBLASTINE;

EID: 0032561298     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(98)00233-X     Document Type: Article

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