Antioxidants enhance the susceptibility of colon carcinoma cells to 5-fluorouracil by augmenting the induction of the bax protein

Cancer Letters

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 77-84

  Adeyemo, Dayo ^a   Imtiaz, F ^a   Toffa, S ^a   Lowdell, M ^a   Wickremasinghe, R G ^a   Winslet, M ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Apoptosis; Bax; Colorectal neoplasms; Reactive oxygen species

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; PROTEIN BAX; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; COLON CARCINOMA; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION;

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; ANTIOXIDANTS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DRUG INTERACTIONS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUOROURACIL; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; HUMANS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VITAMIN E;

EID: 0035836080     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(00)00720-5     Document Type: Article

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