Induction of apoptosis in human breast cancer and trophoblast tumor cells by galectin-1

Anticancer Research

Volumn 25, Issue 3 A, 2005, Pages 1575-1580

  Wiest, Irmi ^a   Seliger, Christian ^a   Walzel, Hermann ^b   Friese, Klaus ^a   Jeschke, Udo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; BeWo cells; Galectin 1; MCF7 cells; Mycoplasma

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; EPITOPE; GALAPTIN; GALECTIN 1; GLYCOCONJUGATE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; APOPTOSIS; BREAST CANCER; CARCINOMA CELL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA NICK TRANSLATION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MYCOPLASMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TROPHOBLASTIC TUMOR;

APOPTOSIS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CULTURE MEDIA, SERUM-FREE; FEMALE; GALECTIN 1; HUMANS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TROPHOBLASTIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 21244436810     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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