Brominated derivatives of noscapine are potent microtubule-interfering agents that perturb mitosis and inhibit cell proliferation

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 799-807

  Zhou, Jun ^a,b   Gupta, Kamlesh ^c   Aggarwal, Shefali ^d   Aneja, Ritu ^e   Chandra, Ramesh ^d   Panda, Dulal ^c   Joshi, Harish C ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 BROMONOSCAPINE; BROMINE DERIVATIVE; EPOTHILONE DERIVATIVE; NOSCAPINE; PACLITAXEL; REDUCED 5 BROMONOSCAPINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CELL CYCLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROTUBULE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS; MITOSIS INHIBITION; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTITUSSIVE AGENTS; BROMINE; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOMES; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; KINETOCHORES; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; NOSCAPINE; TUBULIN; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0037379660     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/mol.63.4.799     Document Type: Article

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