Ajoene, a garlic-derived natural compound, enhances chemotherapy-induced apoptosis in human myeloid leukaemia CD34-positive resistant cells

Anticancer Research

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 3519-3523

  Ahmed, N ^a   Laverick, L ^a   Sammons, J ^a   Zhang, H ^a   Maslin, D J ^a   Hassan, H T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; CD34; Fludarabine; Garlic; Leukaemia; Myeloid

Indexed keywords

AJOENE; ALLICIN; CASPASE 3; CD34 ANTIGEN; CYTARABINE; FLUDARABINE; GARLIC EXTRACT; PROTEIN BCL 2; SULFIDE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER RESISTANCE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG POTENTIATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MYELOBLAST; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANTIGENS, CD34; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; CYTARABINE; DISULFIDES; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; DRUG SYNERGISM; GARLIC; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID; PLANT EXTRACTS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VIDARABINE;

EID: 0035570174     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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