2-Methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone, vitamin K3, decreases gap-junctional intercellular communication via activation of the epidermal growth factor receptor/extracellular signal-regulated kinase cascade

Cancer Research

Volumn 62, Issue 17, 2002, Pages 4922-4928

  Klotz, Lars Oliver ^a   Patak, Pauline ^a   Ale Agha, Niloofar ^a   Buchczyk, Darius P ^a   Abdelmohsen, Kotb ^a   Gerber, P Arne ^a   Von Montfort, Claudia ^a   Sies, Helmut ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; DICOUMAROL; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; MENADIONE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE (PHOSPHATE) DEHYDROGENASE (QUINONE);

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BYSTANDER EFFECT; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; EPITHELIUM CELL; GAP JUNCTION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNALIZATION; LIVER CELL; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REACTION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNEXIN 43; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GAP JUNCTIONS; LIVER; MAP KINASE KINASE 1; MAP KINASE KINASE 2; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; VITAMIN K 3;

EID: 0036735403     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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