Tumor-specificity and type of cell death induced by phenoxazines

Anticancer Research

Volumn 27, Issue 6 B, 2007, Pages 4233-4238

  Suzuki, Fumika ^a   Hashimoto, Ken ^a   Ishihara, Mariko ^a   Westman, Gunnar ^b   Samuelsson, Kristin ^c   Kawase, Masami ^d   Motohashi, Noboru ^e   Sakagami, Hiroshi ^a  

^a MEIKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (Japan)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d MATSUYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e MEIJI PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Caspase; Cell death; Cytotoxicity; Phenoxazines; Type of cell death

Indexed keywords

ACRIDINE ORANGE; DACTINOMYCIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 1; PHENOXAZINE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WM7; WM8;

ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DRUG SENSITIVITY; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL DEATH; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DRUG SCREENING ASSAYS, ANTITUMOR; FIBROBLASTS; GLIOBLASTOMA; HL-60 CELLS; HUMANS; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; OXAZINES;

EID: 37549047127     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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