Synergistic antitumor effect of β-elemene and etoposide is mediated via induction of cell apoptosis and cell cycle arrest in non-small cell lung carcinoma cells

Molecular Medicine Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1189-1193

  Zhang, Fan ^a   Xu, Ling ^a   Qu, Xiujuan ^a   Zhao, Mingfang ^a   Jin, Bo ^a   Kang, Jian ^a   Liu, Yunpeng ^a   Hu, Xuejun ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

elemene; Apoptosis; Cycle arrest; Etoposide; Lung cancer

Indexed keywords

BETA ELEMENE; CYCLIN D1; ETOPOSIDE; POLY(ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSE); PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN P21; PROTEIN P53;

ANTIGENICITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL VIABILITY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG POTENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; UPREGULATION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINTS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CURCUMA; CYCLIN D1; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P21; ETOPOSIDE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; POLY(ADP-RIBOSE) POLYMERASES; SESQUITERPENES; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

CURCUMA AROMATICA;

EID: 80053113360     PISSN: 17912997     EISSN: 17913004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2011.537     Document Type: Article

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