The extract of huanglian, a medicinal herb, induces cell growth arrest and apoptosis by upregulation of interferon-β and TNF-α in human breast cancer cells

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1934-1939

  Kang, Jing X ^a,b   Liu, Jing ^a,b   Wang, Jingdong ^a,b   He, Chengwei ^a,b   Li, Frederick P ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA INTERFERON; COPTIS RHIZOME; MESSENGER RNA; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER PREVENTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHINESE MEDICINE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL CYCLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE I; MEDICINE, HERBAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLANT EXTRACTS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 27744471940     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: 14602180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/bgi154     Document Type: Article

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