Enhanced radiation and chemotherapy-mediated cell killing of human cancer cells by small inhibitory RNA silencing of DNA repair factors

Cancer Research

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1550-1554

  Collis, Spencer J ^a   Swartz, Michael J ^a   Nelson, William G ^a   DeWeese, Theodore L ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 MORPHOLINO 8 PHENYLCHROMONE; ATM PROTEIN; ATR PROTEIN; DNA DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; MESYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER; PROTEIN; RNA; SMALL INHIBITORY RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WORTMANNIN;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER CELL DESTRUCTION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CARCINOMA CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSENSITIVITY;

CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE THERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RADIATION-SENSITIZING AGENTS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 0037382008     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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