β-Carotene: A colorful killer of cancer cells? A commentary on "ROS-triggered caspase 2 activation and feedback amplification loop in β-carotene-induced apoptosis"

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 418-421

  Carpenter, Keri L H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

8 HYDROXYGUANINE; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; BETA CAROTENE; BETA CRYPTOXANTHIN; CAROTENOID; CASPASE 2; ETOPOSIDE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; MOLYBDENUM; NICOTINIC ACID; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; RETINOL; RIBOFLAVIN; SCAVENGER; SELENIUM; TOCOPHEROL; XANTHOPHYLL; ZINC;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; CYTOTOXICITY; DIETARY INTAKE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MUTAGENESIS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION;

EID: 33745839264     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2006.05.007     Document Type: Note

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