Induction of apoptosis in neoplastic cells by anthracycline antitumor drugs: Nuclear and cytoplasmic triggering?

Anticancer Research

Volumn 19, Issue 3 A, 1999, Pages 1909-1918

  Serafino, Annalucia ^a   Sinibaldi Vallebona, Paola ^b   Pierimarchi, Pasquale ^a   Bernard, Paola ^a   Gaudiano, Giorgio ^a   Massa, Claudia ^a   Rasi, Guido ^a   Ranagnan, Giampietro ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adriamycin; Apoptosis; Confocal laser microscopy; GSH; Scanning electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DNA; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); DOXORUBICIN; GLUTATHIONE; PROPIDIUM IODIDE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOFLUOROMETRY; CYTOPLASM; CYTOTOXICITY; ERYTHROLEUKEMIA CELL; GOLGI COMPLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MELANOMA CELL; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STAINING;

ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC; APOPTOSIS; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; DNA, NEOPLASM; DOXORUBICIN; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GLUTATHIONE; HUMANS; K562 CELLS; MELANOMA; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIA, HEART; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032781221     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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