A direct comparison of the anticancer activities of digitoxin MeON-Neoglycosides and O-Glycosides

ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 326-330

  Iyer, Anand Krishnan V ^a   Zhou, Maoquan ^b   Azad, Neelam ^a   Elbaz, Hosam ^b   Wang, Leo ^b   Rogalsky, Derek K ^c   Rojanasakul, Yon ^b   O'Doherty, George A ^b   Langenhan, Joseph M ^c  

^a HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SEATTLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; cancer; cardiac glycoside; caspase; digitoxin

Indexed keywords

CARDENOLIDE DERIVATIVE; CASPASE 9; DIDIGITOXOSIDE; DIGITOXIN; GLYCOSIDE; MONODIGITOXOSIDE; NEOGLYCOSIDE DERIVATIVE; TRI O DIGITOXOSIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CYTOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 77958081683     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19485875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ml1000933     Document Type: Article

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