Targeting apoptosis to cancer via hTERT promoter

Cancer Biology and Therapy

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1554-1555

  Fang, Bingliang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cancer; Caspase; Gene therapy; Telomerase

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; CASPASE 10; CASPASE 11; CASPASE 12; CASPASE 13; CASPASE 2; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 6; CASPASE 7; CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME; RECOMBINANT CASPASE 3; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; CANCER; CANCER THERAPY; CELL DEATH; COLON CARCINOMA; GENE; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; HUMAN; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NOTE; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOMACH CARCINOMA;

EID: 33846947174     PISSN: 15384047     EISSN: 15558576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cbt.5.11.3680     Document Type: Note

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