Cytotoxicity of digitoxin and related cardiac glycosides in human tumor cells

Anti-Cancer Drugs

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 475-483

  Johansson, Senia ^a   Lindholm, Petra ^a   Gullbo, Joachim ^b   Larsson, Rolf ^b   Bohlin, Lars ^a   Claeson, Per ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cytotoxicity drug screening; Digitalis glycosides; Digitonin; Digitoxigenin; Digitoxin; Digoxin; Lanatoside C; Ouabain; Proscillaridin A; Tumor cell lines

Indexed keywords

DIGITALIS GLYCOSIDE; DIGITONIN; DIGITOXIGENIN; DIGITOXIN; DIGOXIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); GLUTATHIONE; GLYCOPROTEIN P; LANATOSIDE C; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN; OUABAIN; PROSCILLARIDIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG RESISTANCE; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG SELECTIVITY; HEMATOPOIETIC SYSTEM TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IC 50; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID TUMOR; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR CELL CULTURE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; DIGITOXIN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0034934296     PISSN: 09594973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001813-200106000-00009     Document Type: Article

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