Cytotoxic activity of azulenequinones against human oral tumor cell lines

Anticancer Research

Volumn 25, Issue 1 A, 2005, Pages 305-312

  Wakabayashi, Hidetsugu ^a   Nishishiro, Masayuki ^a   Arikawa, Satomi ^a   Hashimoto, Ken ^b   Kikuchi, Hirotaka ^b   Nishikawa, Hirofumi ^b   Kurihara, Teruo ^a   Terakubo, Shigemi ^c,d   Shoji, Yoko ^c,d   Nakashima, Hideki ^c,d   Motohashi, Noboru ^e   Sakagami, Hiroshi ^b  

^a JOSAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MEIKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (Japan)

^c ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^e MEIJI PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Apoptosis related protein expression; Azulenequinones; Caspase; DNA fragmentation

Indexed keywords

3 (3 GUAIAZULENYL) 1,5 AZULENEQUINONE; 7 ISOPROPYL 3 (4 METHYLANILINO) 2 METHYL 1,5 AZULENEQUINONE; AZULENE DERIVATIVE; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; DNA FRAGMENT; PROTEIN BAD; PROTEIN BAX; TROPOLONE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUTH TUMOR; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TUMOR CELL LINE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; AZULENES; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CYCLOHEPTANES; DRUG SCREENING ASSAYS, ANTITUMOR; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HL-60 CELLS; HUMANS; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; QUINONES; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 20144387836     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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