The anti-tumor effect of Euchema serra agglutinin on colon cancer cells in vitro and in vivo

Anti-Cancer Drugs

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 943-947

  Fukuda, Yuki ^a   Sugahara, Takuya ^a   Ueno, Masashi ^a   Fukuta, Yusuke ^a   Ochi, Yukari ^a   Akiyama, Koichi ^a   Miyazaki, Tatsuhiko ^a   Masuda, Seizo ^a   Kawakubo, Akihiro ^b   Kato, Keiichi ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Yamaki Co   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cancer therapy; Colon cancer; Eucheuma serra agglutinin; Lectin

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTININ; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CASPASE 3; DNA FRAGMENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL DEATH; CELL SURFACE; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RED ALGA; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGGLUTININS; ALGAE, RED; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CASPASE 3; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DEOXYURACIL NUCLEOTIDES; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LECTINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 33748451883     PISSN: 09594973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.cad.0000224458.13651.b4     Document Type: Article

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