Models of anti-cancer therapy: Trail and anti-tumor responses

Cancer Biology and Therapy

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2003, Pages S71-S78

  Bhojani, Mahaveer Swaroop ^a   Rossú, Brian D ^a,b   Rehemtulla, Alnawaz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEIN; CASPASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TNFSF10 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RELATED APOPTOSIS INDUCING LIGAND;

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DEATH; DNA DAMAGE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; CASPASES; CELL DEATH; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DNA DAMAGE; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TNF-RELATED APOPTOSIS-INDUCING LIGAND; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 1542541541     PISSN: 15384047     EISSN: 15558576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cbt.205     Document Type: Article

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