Bacillus Calmette-Guerin Mechanism of Action: The Role of Immunity, Apoptosis, Necrosis and Autophagy

Journal of Urology

Volumn 178, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1840-1841

  DiPaola, Robert S ^a   Lattime, Edmund C ^a  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; PROTEIN P21; PROTEIN P53;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NICK END LABELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR CELL DESTRUCTION;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVESICAL; APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; BCG VACCINE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NECROSIS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 35148871142     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2007.08.063     Document Type: Editorial

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