Bortezomib up-regulates activated signal transducer and activator of transcription-3 and synergizes with inhibitors of signal transducer and activator of transcription-3 to promote head and neck squamous cell carcinoma cell death

Molecular Cancer Therapeutics

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2211-2220

  Li, Changyou ^a   Zang, Yan ^a   Sen, Malabika ^b   Leeman Neill, Rebecca J ^a   Man, David S K ^b   Grandis, Jennifer R ^a,b   Johnson, Daniel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORTEZOMIB; GUGGULSTERONE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; STAT3 PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CARCINOMA CELL; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL CLONE; CELL DEATH; CELL KILLING; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG TARGETING; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SQUAMOUS CELL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; UPREGULATION;

APOPTOSIS; BORONIC ACIDS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL LINE, TUMOR; ENZYME INHIBITORS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PYRAZINES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 68849103713     PISSN: 15357163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-09-0327     Document Type: Article

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