Cooling skin cancer: Menthol inhibits melanoma growth. Focus on "TRPM8 activation suppresses cellular viability in human melanoma"

American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology

Volumn 295, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Slominski, Andrzej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; MENTHOL; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL M; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL M 8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CALCIUM; MICRORNA; MIRN142 MICRORNA, MOUSE; TRPM8 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

CANCER CELL; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CELL VIABILITY; COOLING; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; TUMOR CELL LINE;

CALCIUM; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA; MENTHOL; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TRPM CATION CHANNELS;

EID: 55949115077     PISSN: 03636143     EISSN: 15221563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00312.2008     Document Type: Editorial

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