Marked inhibition of growth and invasive parameters of head and neck squamous carcinoma FaDu by a nutrient mixture

Integrative Cancer Therapies

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 168-176

  Roomi, M W ^a   Roomi, N W ^a   Kalinovsky, T ^a   Rath, M ^a   Niedzwiecki, A ^a  

^a Dr Rath Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma; HNSCC; Matrigel invasion; MMPs; Nutrients; Tumor growth

Indexed keywords

3 (4,5 DIMETHYL 2 THIAZOLYL) 2,5 DIPHENYLTETRAZOLIUM BROMIDE; ACETYLCYSTEINE; ARGININE; ASCORBIC ACID; CASPASE; GELATINASE; GELATINASE A; GELATINASE B; GREEN TEA EXTRACT; LYSINE; MATRIGEL; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; PROLINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER INVASION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME RELEASE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; NUTRIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ZYMOGRAPHY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; ASCORBIC ACID; CAMELLIA SINENSIS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SURVIVAL; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; FOOD; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 2; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 9; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PLANT EXTRACTS; TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL ACETATE; XENOGRAFT MODEL ANTITUMOR ASSAYS;

EID: 68949101679     PISSN: 15347354     EISSN: 1552695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534735408334632     Document Type: Article

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