Chemical Basis for the Biological Activity of Imexon and Related Cyanoaziridines

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 218-223

  Iyengar, Bhashyam S ^a   Dorr, Robert T ^a   Remers, William A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZIRIDINE DERIVATIVE; DNA; IMEXON; LYSINE; PYRROLIDINE DERIVATIVE; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG CONFORMATION; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RING OPENING METATHESIS POLYMERIZATION;

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; AZIRIDINES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; HEXANONES; HUMANS; MICE; NITRILES;

EID: 0346100660     PISSN: 00222623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jm030225v     Document Type: Article

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