Effect of curcumin on normal and tumor cells: Role of glutathione and bcl-2

Molecular Cancer Therapeutics

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1101-1108

  Syng Ai, Christine ^a   Kumari, A Leela ^a   Khar, Ashok ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BUTHIONINE SULFOXIMINE; CURCUMIN; GLUTATHIONE; PROTEIN BCL 2; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SUPEROXIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL STRAIN HEPG2; CELL STRAIN MCF 7; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG MECHANISM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; SENSITIZATION; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; BUTHIONINE SULFOXIMINE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CURCUMIN; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASES; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYC; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

EID: 4644364745     PISSN: 15357163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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