Curcumin: A new radio-sensitizer of squamous cell carcinoma cells

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 317-321

  Khafif, Avi ^a,c   Hurst, Robert ^b   Kyker, Kimberly ^b   Fliss, Dan M ^a   Gil, Ziv ^a   Medina, Jesus E ^b  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURCUMIN; RADIOSENSITIZING AGENT;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CELL ASSAY; CELL COUNT; CELL GROWTH; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INCUBATION TIME; IONIZING RADIATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSENSITIZATION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SCREENING; MOUTH TUMOR; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TUMOR CELL LINE;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CURCUMIN; G2 PHASE; HUMANS; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; RADIATION-SENSITIZING AGENTS; S PHASE; TUMOR STEM CELL ASSAY;

EID: 14744268877     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2004.09.006     Document Type: Article

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