Broad selective efficacy of rMETase and PEG-rMETase on cancer cells in vitro

Anticancer Research

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 793-798

  Tan, Yuying ^a   Xu, Mingxu ^a   Hoffman, Robert M ^a  

^a ANTICANCER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Efficacy; Methioninase; Methionine dependence; PEG methioninase; Selectivity

Indexed keywords

MACROGOL; RECOMBINANT METHIONINE GAMMA LYASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; AORTA; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; BRONCHUS; CANCER CELL CULTURE; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IC 50; IN VITRO STUDY; KERATINOCYTE; KIDNEY CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MANDIBLE CANCER; MELANOMA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SKIN FIBROBLAST; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

CARBON-SULFUR LYASES; CELL GROWTH PROCESSES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DRUG SCREENING ASSAYS, ANTITUMOR; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 77951059382     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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