Triptolide inhibits the growth and metastasis of solid tumors

Molecular Cancer Therapeutics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 65-72

  Yang, Shanmin ^a,b   Chen, Jinguo ^a   Guo, Zhen ^b   Xu, Xue Ming ^a   Wang, Luping ^a   Pei, Xu Fang ^a   Yang, Jing ^a   Underhill, Charles B ^a   Zhang, Lurong ^a,b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DITERPENE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PHENANTHRENE DERIVATIVE; TRIPTOLIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLADDER TUMOR; BREAST TUMOR; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIVISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL MELANOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; STOMACH TUMOR;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL DIVISION; DITERPENES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MELANOMA; MELANOMA, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PHENANTHRENES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0141576565     PISSN: 15357163     EISSN: 15388514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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