Cytotoxicity of novel unsymmetrically substituted inhibitors of polyamine biosynthesis in human cancer cells

Journal of Cellular Physiology

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 209-213

  Nairn, Lynsey M ^a   Lindsay, Gayle S ^a   Woster, P M ^b   Wallace, Heather M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; DNA; ETOPOSIDE; POLYAMINE DERIVATIVE; SPERMIDINE; SPERMINE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL DESTRUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMIA CELL; POLYAMINE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; APOPTOSIS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA, NEOPLASM; ENZYME INDUCTION; ETOPOSIDE; HUMANS; POLYAMINES; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0033972722     PISSN: 00219541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4652(200002)182:2<209::AID-JCP9>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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