Cytotoxicity and Apoptosis Induction by Butylated Hydroxyanisole (BHA) and Butylated Hydroxytoluene (BHT)

Anticancer Research

Volumn 23, Issue 6 C, 2003, Pages 4693-4701

  Saito, Masatoshi ^a   Sakagami, Hiroshi ^a   Fujisawa, Seiichiro ^a,b  

^a MEIKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; BHA; BHT; Cytotoxicity

Indexed keywords

2 TERT BUTYL PARA CRESOL; ACETYLCYSTEINE; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; BUTYLATED HYDROXYANISOLE; BUTYLCRESOL; CASPASE; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; CATALASE; DNA FRAGMENT; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; MANGANESE SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; MESSENGER RNA; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; RADICAL; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE (PHOSPHATE) DEHYDROGENASE (QUINONE); UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL STRAIN HL 60; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ANTIOXIDANTS; APOPTOSIS; BUTYLATED HYDROXYANISOLE; BUTYLATED HYDROXYTOLUENE; CARCINOGENS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL SURVIVAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HL-60 CELLS; HUMANS; NAD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0842268474     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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