Calcium channel as a potential anticancer agent

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 655-656

  Kriazhev, L ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM ION;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM INTAKE; CANCER CELL; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CELL DEATH; CELL MEMBRANE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNAIL;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 70349865183     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.08.019     Document Type: Article

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