Natural triterpenoid avicins selectively induce tumor cell death

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 205-208

  Wang, Huibo ^a   Haridas, Valsala ^b   Gutterman, Jordan U ^b   Xu, Zhi Xiang ^a  

^a Heerskink School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

AMPK TSC2 mTOR; Apoptosis; Autophagy; Avicins; Fas; Lipid raft; Mitochondrial perturbation

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA;

EID: 80053613331     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.3.3.11492     Document Type: Short Survey

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