Effects of natural prenylated flavones in the phenotypical ER (+) MCF-7 and ER (-) MDA-MB-231 human breast cancer cells

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 24-36

  Pedro, Madalena ^a   Lourenço, Cátia F ^a   Cidade, Honorina ^a   Kijjoa, Anake ^a,b   Pinto, Madalena ^a   Nascimento, Maria São José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b CIIMAR Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marítima e Ambiental   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Artocarpus elasticus; Biphasic effect; Cytoplasmic vacuolization; Estrogen receptors; Prenylated flavones

Indexed keywords

3 (4,5 DIMETHYL 2 THIAZOLYL) 2,5 DIPHENYLTETRAZOLIUM BROMIDE; ARTELASTICIN; ARTELASTIN; ARTELASTOCARPIN; ARTELASTOCHROMENE; ARTELASTOFURAN; ARTOCARPESIN; CARPELATOFURAN; DANSYLCADAVERINE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FLAVONE DERIVATIVE; FORMAZAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CELL STRAIN MCF 7; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; DNA, NEOPLASM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FLAVONES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; VACUOLES;

ARTOCARPUS ELASTICUS; MINK CELL FOCUS-FORMING VIRUS;

EID: 33646096970     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2005.11.007     Document Type: Article

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