Prevention of pancreatic cancer by the beta-blocker propranolol

Anti-Cancer Drugs

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 477-482

  Al Wadei, Hussein A ^a,b   Al Wadei, Mohammed H ^a   Schuller, Hildegard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b SANA A UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

Author keywords

Beta blocker; cAMP signaling; Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor; Pancreatic cancer prevention

Indexed keywords

2 BUTANONE; ALCOHOL; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BUNGAROTOXIN RECEPTOR; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; NITROSAMINE 4 (METHYLNITROSAMINO) 1 (3 PYRIDYL) 1 BUTANONE; PROPRANOLOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER PREVENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; HAMSTER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREAS DUCT; PANCREATIC DUCTAL ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA, PANCREATIC DUCTAL; CRICETINAE; CYCLIC AMP; ETHANOL; FEMALE; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; NITROSAMINES; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATITIS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROPRANOLOL; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, BETA; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC;

EID: 67249100746     PISSN: 09594973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CAD.0b013e32832bd1e3     Document Type: Article

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