RRR-α-tocopheryl succinate-induced apoptosis of human breast cancer cells involves bax translocation to mitochondrial

Cancer Research

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2483-2491

  Yu, Weiping ^a   Sanders, Bob G ^a   Kline, Kimberly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL SUCCINATE; ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; CYTOCHROME C; JANUS KINASE; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MITOCHONDRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TUMOR CELL LINE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASPASES; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; CYTOSOL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HUMANS; JNK MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; POLY(ADP-RIBOSE) POLYMERASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VITAMIN E;

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