Anti-tumor effect of β-elemene in glioblastoma cells depends on p38 MAPK activation

Cancer Letters

Volumn 264, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 127-134

  Yao, Yi Qun ^a   Ding, Xia ^b   Jia, Yi Chang ^b   Huang, Chuan Xin ^b   Wang, Yi Zheng ^b   Xu, Ying Hui ^a  

^a DALIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People s Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

Elemene; Cell cycle; p38 MAPK

Indexed keywords

4 (4 FLUOROPHENYL) 2 (4 METHYLSULFINYLPHENYL) 5 (4 PYRIDYL)IMIDAZOLE; BETA ELEMENE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER MODEL; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL CYCLE G0 PHASE; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CURCUMA WENYUJIN; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEDICINAL PLANT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TUMOR XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL CYCLE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; IMIDAZOLES; MICE; MICE, NUDE; P38 MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PYRIDINES; RATS; SESQUITERPENES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOGRAFT MODEL ANTITUMOR ASSAYS;

CURCUMA WENYUJIN; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 42649116109     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2008.01.049     Document Type: Article

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