Tumor promoting properties of a cigarette smoke prevalent polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon as indicated by the inhibition of gap junctional intercellular communication via phosphatidylcholine-specific phospholipase C

Cancer Science

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 696-705

  Upham, Brad L ^a   Bláha, Ludek ^b   Babica, Pavel ^a   Park, Joon Suk ^a   Sovadinova, Iva ^a   Pudrith, Charles ^a   Rummel, Alisa M ^a   Weis, Liliane M ^a   Sai, Kimie ^c   Tithof, Patti K ^d   Gužvić, Miodrag ^e   Vondráček, Jan ^f,g   Machala, Miroslav ^f   Trosko, James E ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Res Ctr Environ Chem E   (Czech Republic)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^f VETERINARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^g INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 METHYL ANTHRACENE; 2 METHYL ANTHRACENE; ANTHRACENE; ARACHIDONIC ACID; CONNEXIN 43; LIPOPROTEIN LIPASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; PHOSPHOLIPASE D; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; SPHINGOMYELIN PHOSPHODIESTERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME REGULATION; GAP JUNCTION; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENOTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTHRACENES; CARCINOGENS, ENVIRONMENTAL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL LINE; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXINS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GAP JUNCTIONS; NEOPLASMS; P38 MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; SMOKE; SPHINGOMYELIN PHOSPHODIESTERASE; TOBACCO; TYPE C PHOSPHOLIPASES;

EID: 41249096480     PISSN: 13479032     EISSN: 13497006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.2008.00752.x     Document Type: Article

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