γ-Glutamyltransferase, redox regulation and cancer drug resistance

Current Opinion in Pharmacology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 360-366

  Pompella, Alfonso ^b   Corti, Alessandro ^b   Paolicchi, Aldo ^b   Giommarelli, Chiara ^a   Zunino, Franco ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIVICIN; CHLORAMBUCIL; CISPLATIN; CYSTEINYLGLYCINE; DNA; FLUOROURACIL; FREE RADICAL; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLUTATHIONE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; MELPHALAN; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; RAS PROTEIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOTOXICITY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG TARGETING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; GLUTATHIONE METABOLISM; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OVARY CANCER; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RENAL PROTECTION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLUTATHIONE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 34548081774     PISSN: 14714892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coph.2007.04.004     Document Type: Review

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