Stearate preferentially induces apoptosis in human breast cancer cells

Nutrition and Cancer

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 746-753

  Evans, Lynda M ^a   Cowey, Stephanie L ^a   Siegal, Gene P ^a   Hardy, Robert W ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; GLYCEROL; PROTEIN KINASE C; STEARIC ACID;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CANCER PREVENTION; CELL VIABILITY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASPASE 3; CELL LINE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL SHAPE; CELL SURVIVAL; COENZYME A LIGASES; DIETARY FATS; DIGLYCERIDES; FEMALE; HUMANS; PROTEIN KINASE C; STEARIC ACIDS;

EID: 70449635971     PISSN: 01635581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01635580902825597     Document Type: Article

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