β-Elemene-induced autophagy protects human gastric cancer cells from undergoing apoptosis

BMC Cancer

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Liu, Jing ^a   Zhang, Ye ^a   Qu, Jinglei ^a   Xu, Ling ^a   Hou, Kezuo ^a   Zhang, Jingdong ^a   Qu, Xiujuan ^a   Liu, Yunpeng ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 METHYLADENINE; BECLIN 1; BETA ELEMENE; CHLOROQUINE; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BETA-ELEMENE; PLANT EXTRACT; SESQUITERPENE; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL PROTECTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENTIATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOMACH CANCER; UPREGULATION; CELL SURVIVAL; DRUG ANTAGONISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STOMACH TUMOR; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SURVIVAL; HUMANS; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASES; PLANT EXTRACTS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; SESQUITERPENES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 79956202882     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-11-183     Document Type: Article

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