Antitumor Activity of a Kinesin Inhibitor

Cancer Research

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 3276-3280

  Sakowicz, Roman ^b   Finer, Jeffrey T ^b   Beraud, Christophe ^b   Crompton, Anne ^b   Lewis, Evan ^b   Fritsch, Alex ^b   Lee, Yan ^b   Mak, John ^b   Moody, Robert ^b   Turincio, Rebecca ^b   Chabala, John C ^b   Gonzales, Paul ^a   Roth, Stephanie ^a   Weitman, Steve ^a   Wood, Kenneth W ^b  

^a CTRC Institute for Drug Development   (United States)

^b Cytokinetics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMITOTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CK 0106023; KINESIN; KINESIN INHIBITOR; PROTEIN KSP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER GROWTH; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SPECIFICITY; GROWTH INHIBITION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MITOSIS INHIBITION; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KINESIN; MICE; MICE, NUDE; PYRIMIDINES; XENOGRAFT MODEL ANTITUMOR ASSAYS;

EID: 2342563857     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-03-3839     Document Type: Article

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