Anti-cancer activity of targeted pro-apoptotic peptides

Nature Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1032-1038

  Ellerby, H Michael ^a,b   Arap, Wadih ^a,d   Ellerby, Lisa M ^a,b   Kain, Renate ^a,c   Andrusiak, Rebecca ^a   Del Rio, Gabriel ^a,b   Krajewski, Stanislaw ^a   Lombardo, Christian R ^a   Rao, Rammohan ^a,b   Ruoslahti, Erkki ^a   Bredesen, Dale E ^a,b   Pasqualini, Renata ^a,d  

^a BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; DRUG TARGETING; INTERNALIZATION; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TARGET CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELLS, CULTURED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG DESIGN; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; MITOCHONDRIA, LIVER; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; RATS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032819838     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/12469     Document Type: Article

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