Increased Mouse Survival, Tumor Growth Inhibition and Decreased Immunoreactive p53 after Exposure to Magnetic Fields

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 230-238

  Tofani, Santi ^a   Cintorino, Marcella ^b   Barone, Domenico ^c   Berardelli, Michele ^a   De Santi, Maria Margherita ^b   Ferrara, Adriana ^a   Orlassino, Renzo ^a   Ossola, Piero ^a   Rolfo, Katia ^a   Ronchetto, Flavio ^a   Tripodi, Sergio Antonio ^b   Tosi, Piero ^b  

^a Ospedale di Ivrea   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c Biomed Research Institute A Marxer   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Colon carcinoma (WiDr) xenograft; Nude mice

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAMMALS; METAL IONS; TUMORS;

ANTITUMOUR ACTIVITY; COLON CARCINOMA; COLON CARCINOMA (WIDR) XENOGRAFT; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN COLON; IN-VIVO; MAGNETIC-FIELD; NUDE MICE; SURVIVAL TIME; TUMOR GROWTH;

CELL DEATH;

METAL ION; PROTEIN P53;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MITOSIS INDEX; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SURVIVAL TIME; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; TUMOR XENOGRAFT; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; COLON TUMOR; MAGNETISM; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; PHYSIOLOGY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; MAGNETICS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MITOTIC INDEX; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 0036551060     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bem.10010     Document Type: Article

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