Induction of apoptosis by α-Tocotrienol in human cancer cell lines and leukemic blasts from patients: Dependency on bid, cytochrome c, and caspase pathway

Nutrition and Cancer

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 763-770

  Inoue, Akiko ^a   Takitani, Kimitaka ^a   Koh, Maki ^a   Kawakami, Chihiro ^a   Kuno, Tomoko ^a   Tamai, Hiroshi ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOTRIENOL; CASPASE; CYTOCHROME C; DELTA TOCOTRIENOL; GAMMA TOCOTRIENOL; PROTEIN BID; TOCOPHEROL DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEIN; BID PROTEIN, HUMAN; CHROMAN DERIVATIVE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; PLASTOCHROMANOL 8; TUMOR PROTEIN;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE MYELOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLAST CELL; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER PREVENTION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA LADDER FORMATION; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMIA CELL; MALE; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SCHOOL CHILD; BLOOD DISEASE; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INFANT; LEUKEMIA; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MITOCHONDRION; PATHOLOGY; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; BH3 INTERACTING DOMAIN DEATH AGONIST PROTEIN; BONE MARROW CELLS; CASPASES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMANS; CYTOCHROMES C; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INFANT; LEUKEMIA; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL, MITOCHONDRIAL; MITOCHONDRIA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; VITAMIN E;

EID: 79960617315     PISSN: 01635581     EISSN: 15327914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01635581.2011.563030     Document Type: Article

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