Inhibition of proliferation of a hepatoma cell line by fucoxanthin in relation to cell cycle arrest and enhanced gap junctional intercellular communication

Chemico-Biological Interactions

Volumn 182, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 165-172

  Liu, Cheng Ling ^a   Huang, Yung Sheng ^a   Hosokawa, Masashi ^b   Miyashita, Kazuo ^b   Hu, Miao Lin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Connexin 32; Connexin 43; Cytotoxicity; Fucoxanthin; Gap junctional intercellular communication

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CONNEXIN 32; CONNEXIN 43; FUCOXANTHIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL CYCLE G0 PHASE; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; EMBRYO; GAP JUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; CALCIUM; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CYCLE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXINS; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; G0 PHASE; G1 PHASE; GAP JUNCTIONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; JNK MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MURINAE; RNA, MESSENGER; XANTHOPHYLLS;

MURINAE; UNDARIA PINNATIFIDA;

EID: 70350134708     PISSN: 00092797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbi.2009.08.017     Document Type: Article

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