Cell-killing by paclitaxel in a metastatic marine melanoma cell line is mediated by extensive telomere erosion with no decrease in telomerase activity

Oncology Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 39-44

  Multani, Asha S ^a   Li, Chun ^a   Ozen, Mustafa ^a   Imam, Ashraf S ^b   Wallace, Sidney ^a   Pathak, Sen ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b HUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

FISH; Fluorescence in situ hybridization; Na TXL; Paclitaxel; PEG TXL; PG TXL; Poly L glutamic acid paclitaxel; Polyethylene gtycol paclitaxel; Sodium pentetic acid paclitaxel; TAs; Telomeric associations; TXL

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; PACLITAXEL; TELOMERASE; TUMOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL MELANOMA; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; INTERPHASE; METASTASIS; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; POLYPLOIDY; TELOMERE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; APOPTOSIS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INTERPHASE; MELANOMA, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PACLITAXEL; POLYPLOIDY; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032614548     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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