Novel metal clusters isolated from blood are lethal to cancer cells

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 179, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 115-124

  Samoylov, Alexander M ^a   Samoylova, Tatiana I ^a   Pustovyy, Oleg M ^a   Samoylov, Alexei A ^a   Toivio Kinnucan, Maria A ^a   Morrison, Nancy E ^a   Globa, Ludmila P ^a   Gale, William F ^b   Vodyanoy, Vitaly ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Blood; Metallic nanoclusters; Nucleating centers; Protein

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A; METAL COMPLEX; NUCLEIC ACID; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN; PROTEONS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CANCER; CANCER CELL; CELL CULTURE; CELL DEATH; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; HEATING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; DOGS; GLIOMA; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; METALS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOSTRUCTURES; NEOPLASMS; RABBITS; RATS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 20944436733     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000085003     Document Type: Article

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