Endothelin-1 protects ovarian carcinoma cells against paclitaxel-induced apoptosis: Requirement for Akt activation

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 524-532

  Del Bufalo, Donatella ^a   Di Castro, Valeriana ^a   Biroccio, Annamaria ^b   Varmi, Marco ^a   Salani, Debora ^a   Rosanï, Laura ^a   Trisciuoglio, Daniela ^a   Spinella, Francesca ^a   Bagnato, Anna ^a  

^a REGINA ELENA NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLO(DEXTRO TRYPTOPHYL DEXTRO ASPARTYLPROLYL DEXTRO VALYLLEUCYL); DNA FRAGMENT; ENDOTHELIN 1; ENDOTHELIN A RECEPTOR; PACLITAXEL; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN KINASE B; WORTMANNIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL PROTECTION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; OVARY CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SENSITIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; APOPTOSIS; CULTURE MEDIA, SERUM-FREE; DRUG INTERACTIONS; ENDOTHELIN-1; FEMALE; HUMANS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PACLITAXEL; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTECTIVE AGENTS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RECEPTOR, ENDOTHELIN A; RECEPTORS, ENDOTHELIN; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0036176126     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/mol.61.3.524     Document Type: Article

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