Overexpression of bax enhances the radiation sensitivity in human breast cancer cells

Surgery Today

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 90-93

  Sakakura, Chouhei ^a,b   Sweeney, Elizabeth A ^b   Shirahama, Tsutomu ^b   Igarashi, Yasuyuki ^b   Hakomori, Sen Ichiroh ^b   Tsujimoto, Hiroyuki ^a   Imanishi, Tsutomu ^a   Ohgaki, Masaharu ^a   Yamazaki, Junya ^a   Hagiwara, Akeo ^a   Sawai, Kiyoshi ^a   Yamaguchi, Toshiharu ^a   Takahashi, Toshio ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b The Biomembrane Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

apoptosis; bax; breast cancer; radiosensitivity

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CELL STRAIN MCF 7; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; RADIOSENSITIVITY;

APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BCL-2; HUMANS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RADIATION TOLERANCE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 8044248976     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01366949     Document Type: Article

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