Modified radiosensitivity of pancreatic cancer xenografts by farnesyl protein transferase inhibitor and MEK inhibitor

Oncology Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1525-1528

  Matsui, Yoshifumi ^a,b   Goto, Miyako ^a   Iwakawa, Mayumi ^a   Asano, Takehide ^a   Kenmochi, Takashi ^a   Imai, Takashi ^a   Ochiai, Takenori ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Department of General Surgery   (Japan)

Author keywords

Farnesyl protein transferase; MEK inhibitor; Pancreatic cancer; Radiosensitivity; Xenograft

Indexed keywords

2 (2 AMINO 3 METHOXYPHENYL)CHROMONE; AMIDE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; FARNESYL TRANS TRANSFERASE; FLAVONOID; MANUMYCIN; MAP3K1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MAP3K1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE KINASE 1; POLYENE; RADIOSENSITIZING AGENT; TRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; DRUG ANTAGONISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MOUSE; NUDE MOUSE; PANCREAS TUMOR; RADIATION RESPONSE; TIME; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FARNESYLTRANSTRANSFERASE; FEMALE; FLAVONOIDS; HUMANS; MAP KINASE KINASE KINASE 1; MAP KINASE KINASE KINASES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; POLYENES; POLYUNSATURATED ALKAMIDES; RADIATION-SENSITIZING AGENTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 2142686613     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.10.5.1525     Document Type: Article

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