Tumor specific cytotoxicity of glucosylceramide

Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 767-775

  Oku, Hirosuke ^a   Wongtangtintharn, Sawitree ^a   Iwasaki, Hironori ^a   Inafuku, Masashi ^b   Shimatani, Masayuki ^a   Toda, Takayoshi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ceramide; Cytotoxicity; Glucosylceramide; Plant; Tumor selective

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; GLUCOSYLCERAMIDE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BEER; CANCER CELL; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CELL POPULATION; CELL RENEWAL; CELL VIABILITY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG MECHANISM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER CELL; MALT; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

ANIMAL FEED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; BEER; CELL CYCLE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SURVIVAL; CEREALS; GLUCOSYLCERAMIDES; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANES; PHYTOTHERAPY; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34548596560     PISSN: 03445704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00280-007-0422-y     Document Type: Article

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