The cationic porphyrin TMPyP4 down-regulates c-MYC and human telomerase reverse transcriptase expression and inhibits tumor growth in vivo

Molecular Cancer Therapeutics

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 565-573

  Grand, Cory L ^a,c   Han, Haiyong ^a   Mũnoz, Rubén M ^a   Weitman, Steve ^b   Von Hoff, Daniel D ^a   Hurley, Laurence H ^a,c   Bearss, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b CTRC Institute for Drug Development   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MYC PROTEIN; PORPHYRIN; RNA; TELOMERASE; TETRA(4 N METHYLPYRIDYL)PORPHINE; TETRA(4-N-METHYLPYRIDYL)PORPHINE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CHEMICAL MODEL; DNA MICROARRAY; DOWN REGULATION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NORTHERN BLOTTING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DNA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PORPHYRINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; TELOMERASE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036597090     PISSN: 15357163     EISSN: 15388514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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