Cytotoxicity and radical modulating activity of Moxa smoke

In Vivo

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 391-398

  Sakagami, Hiroshi ^a   Matsumoto, Hisatoshi ^a   Satoh, Kazue ^a,b   Shioda, Seiji ^b   Ali, Chowdhury Shahead ^a   Hashimoto, Ken ^a   Kikuchi, Hirotaka ^a   Nishikawa, Hirofumi ^a   Terakubo, Shigemi ^c,d   Shoji, Yoko ^c,d   Nakashima, Hideki ^c,d   Shimada, Jun ^a  

^a MEIKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (Japan)

^b SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Caspase; DNA fragmentation; Mosa smoke; Radical Scavenging activity; Tumor specificity; Western blot analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISIA CAPILLARIS EXTRACT; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; CURDLAN; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; DEXTRAN SULFATE; DNA FRAGMENT; FREE RADICAL; HYDROXYL RADICAL; MOXA SMOKE; NITRIC OXIDE; OXYGEN RADICAL; PROTEIN BAD; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; SEMIQUINONE; SINGLET OXYGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZALCITABINE; ZIDOVUDINE;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MOUTH CARCINOMA; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR CELL LINE;

EID: 20144387193     PISSN: 0258851X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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