Carnosine retards tumor growth in vivo in an NIH3T3-HER2/neu mouse model

Molecular Cancer

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Renner, Christof ^a   Zemitzsch, Nadine ^a   Fuchs, Beate ^a   Geiger, Kathrin D ^b   Hermes, Matthias ^c   Hengstler, Jan ^c   Gebhardt, Rolf ^a   Meixensberger, Jürgen ^a   Gaunitz, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANHYDROTETRACYCLINE; CARNOSINE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; PLACEBO; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ERBB2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CELL CULTURE; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIOBLASTOMA; IN VIVO STUDY; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CELL PROLIFERATION; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SCREENING; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; CARNOSINE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG SCREENING ASSAYS, ANTITUMOR; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MITOSIS; NEOPLASMS; NIH 3T3 CELLS; OXIDOREDUCTASES; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2;

EID: 76749085707     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14764598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-4598-9-2     Document Type: Article

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