Vanadocenes as potent anti-proliferative agents disrupting mitotic spindle formation in cancer cells

Anti-Cancer Drugs

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 369-376

  Navara, Christopher S ^a,b   Benyumov, Alexey ^a   Vassilev, Alexei ^a   Narla, Rama Krishna ^a   Ghosh, Phalguni ^a   Uckun, Fatih M ^a  

^a Parker Hughes Cancer Center   (United States)

^b PARKER HUGHES INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Centrosome; Mitotic spindle; Vanadium; Vanadocene; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANADOCENE ACETYLACETONATE; VANADOCENE DICHLORIDE; VDACAC;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; EMBRYO; GLIOBLASTOMA; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; G2 PHASE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION 50; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VANADIUM COMPOUNDS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 0035020025     PISSN: 09594973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001813-200104000-00010     Document Type: Article

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