High LET radiation enhances apoptosis in mutated p53 cancer cells through Caspase-9 activation

Cancer Science

Volumn 99, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1455-1460

  Yamakawa, Nobuhiro ^a   Takahashi, Akihisa ^b   Mori, Eiichiro ^b   Imai, Yuichiro ^a   Furusawa, Yoshiya ^c   Ohnishi, Ken ^b   Kirita, Tadaaki ^a   Ohnishi, Takeo ^b  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CASPASE 8 INHIBITOR; CASPASE 9; CASPASE 9 INHIBITOR; FERRIC ION; HOE 33342; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN P53;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE MUTATION; GINGIVA CANCER; GINGIVA DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ION THERAPY; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; WESTERN BLOTTING; X RAY;

APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 9; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENES, P53; HEAVY IONS; HUMANS; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS; X-RAYS;

EID: 44449137114     PISSN: 13479032     EISSN: 13497006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.2008.00818.x     Document Type: Article

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