Up-regulation of c-Jun-NH2-kinase pathway contributes to the induction of mitochondria-mediated apoptosis by α-tocopheryl succinate in human prostate cancer cells

Molecular Cancer Therapeutics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 43-50

  Zu, Ke ^a   Hawthorn, Lesleyann ^a   Ip, Clement ^a  

^a ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL SUCCINATE; BIM PROTEIN; CASPASE 9; GROWTH ARREST AND DNA DAMAGE INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 45; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN BCL 2; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; DRUG MECHANISM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MITOCHONDRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CELL LINE, TUMOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; JNK MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; VITAMIN E;

EID: 13944274587     PISSN: 15357163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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