Jasmonates - A new family of anti-cancer agents

Anti-Cancer Drugs

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 911-916

  Flescher, Eliezer ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Carcinoma; Leukemia; Mitochondria; Permeability transition; Selectivity

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; CYTOCHROME C; DACTINOMYCIN; DIHYDROJASMONE; JASMONE; JASMONIC ACID; JASMONIC ACID METHYL ESTER; METHYL 4,5 DIDEHYDROJASMONATE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SELECTIVITY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; IC 50; LUNG CANCER; MITOCHONDRION; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; NONHUMAN; PLANT STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; T CELL LYMPHOMA;

ACETIC ACIDS; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CYCLOPENTANES; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NEOPLASMS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS;

EID: 26244458767     PISSN: 09594973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.cad.0000176501.63680.80     Document Type: Review

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