Plumbagin induces cell death through a copper-redox cycle mechanism in human cancer cells

Mutagenesis

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 413-418

  Nazeem, S ^a,b   Azmi, Asfar S ^c   Hanif, Sarmad ^a   Ahmad, Aamir ^c   Mohammad, Ramzi M ^d   Hadi, S M ^a   Kumar, K Sateesh ^b  

^a ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^c Department of Pathology ^*

^d WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,9 DIMETHYL 1,10 PHENANTHROLINE; 3 (4,5 DIMETHYL 2 THIAZOLYL) 2,5 DIPHENYLTETRAZOLIUM BROMIDE; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 7; COPPER; HISTONE; PLASMID DNA; PLUMBAGIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER INHIBITION; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CANCER;

CELL DEATH; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SHAPE; COMET ASSAY; COPPER; CYTOPROTECTION; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; HUMANS; NAPHTHOQUINONES; NEOPLASMS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHENANTHROLINES; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

ANIMALIA; PLUMBAGO ZEYLANICA;

EID: 71949100701     PISSN: 02678357     EISSN: 14643804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mutage/gep023     Document Type: Article

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