Targeting the Mitotic Checkpoint to Kill Tumor Cells

Hormones and Cancer

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 113-116

  Janssen, Aniek ^a   Kops, Geert J ^a   Medema, R H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aneuploidy; Chromosomal instability; Mps1

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE; MPS1 PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PACLITAXEL; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CARCINOMA CELL; CELL CULTURE; CELL DEATH; CELL DIVISION; CELL VIABILITY; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; CHROMOSOME; COLON CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MITOSIS; MITOSIS INHIBITION; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MITOTIC CHECKPOINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION;

ANEUPLOIDY; CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINTS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SEPARATION; CELL SURVIVAL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENES, CDC; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MITOSIS; NEOPLASMS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 79952622791     PISSN: 18688497     EISSN: 18688500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12672-010-0059-x     Document Type: Article

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