Evaluation of the antitumoral effect of dihydrocucurbitacin-B in both in vitro and in vivo models

Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 529-538

  Siqueira, Jarbas Mota ^a   Gazola, Andressa Córneo ^a   Farias, Mareni Rocha ^a   Volkov, Lëonid ^b   Rivard, Nathalie ^b   De Brum Fernandes, Artur José ^b   Ribeiro Do Valle, Rosa Maria ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cyclins; Cytoskeleton; Dihydrocucurbitacin B; Wilbrandia ebracteata

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; CUCURBITACIN; CYCLIN A; CYCLIN B1; DIHYDROCUCURBITACIN B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL CYCLE M PHASE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG ISOLATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TUMOR GROWTH; WILBRANDIA EBRACTEATA;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL CYCLE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CUCURBITACEAE; CYCLINS; CYTOSKELETON; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; MALE; MELANOMA, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; TRITERPENES;

EID: 67349202448     PISSN: 03445704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00280-008-0901-9     Document Type: Article

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