Noscapine inhibits tumor growth with little toxicity to normal tissues or inhibition of immune responses

Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy

Volumn 49, Issue 4-5, 2000, Pages 217-225

  Ke, Yong ^a,b   Ye, Keqiang ^a   Grossniklaus, Hans E ^a   Archer, David R ^a   Joshi, Harish C ^a   Kapp, Judith A ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Drug therapy; T cells

Indexed keywords

NOSCAPINE; TUBULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOMODULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T CELL LYMPHOMA; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0033928547     PISSN: 03407004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002620000109     Document Type: Article

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