Antisense oligonucleotides to class III β-tubulin sensitize drug-resistant cells to Taxol

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 80, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1020-1025

  Kavallaris, M ^a,b   Burkhart, C A ^a   Horwitz, S B ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SYDNEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antisense; Drug resistance; Lung cancer; Taxol; Tubulin

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; BETA TUBULIN; MESSENGER RNA; PACLITAXEL;

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BINDING SITE; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LUNG CANCER; MICROTUBULE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PACLITAXEL; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA, MESSENGER; TUBULIN; TUBULIN MODULATORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032904694     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6690507     Document Type: Article

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