Comment re: Vitamin C antagonizes the cytotoxic effects of chemotherapy

Cancer Research

Volumn 69, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 8830-

  Espey, Michael Graham ^a   Chen, Qi ^a   Levine, Mark ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEHYDROASCORBIC ACID; ABC TRANSPORTER; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; RALBP1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

CYTOTOXICITY; IN VIVO STUDY; LETTER; LYMPHOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; APOPTOSIS; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; KIDNEY TUMOR; METABOLISM; NOTE;

APOPTOSIS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS;

EID: 72249120769     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-08-3798     Document Type: Letter

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