Targeting autophagy during cancer therapy to improve clinical outcomes

Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 130-141

  Levy, Jean M Mulcahy ^a   Thorburn, Andrew ^b  

^a Children's Hospital Colorado   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autophagy; Cancer; Cancer therapy; Cell death; Chloroquine; Clinical trial

Indexed keywords

2 MORPHOLINO 8 PHENYLCHROMONE; 3 (4 METHYLPHENYLSULFONYL) 2 PROPENENITRILE; ALKALOID DERIVATIVE; ANTIMETABOLITE; AZACITIDINE; BEVACIZUMAB; CARBOPLATIN; CHLOROQUINE; CISPLATIN; DASATINIB; DOCETAXEL; ETOPOSIDE; FLUOROURACIL; GEMCITABINE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; IXABEPILONE; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN INHIBITOR; NATURAL PRODUCT; NELFINAVIR; OBATOCLAX; OXALIPLATIN; PACLITAXEL; PROTEASOME INHIBITOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITOR; RAPAMYCIN; RITONAVIR; SORAFENIB; TAMOXIFEN; TEMSIROLIMUS; UNINDEXED DRUG; VORINOSTAT;

ADD ON THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; CARCINOGENESIS; CATABOLISM; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL STRESS; CELL SURVIVAL; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; CONSENSUS; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MELANOMA; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS CANCER; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM CARCINOMA; SOLID TUMOR; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR PROMOTION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 79956224883     PISSN: 01637258     EISSN: 1879016X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2011.03.009     Document Type: Review

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