Advanced malignant melanoma responds to Prunus mume sieb. Et Zucc (Ume) extract: Case report and in vitro study

Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 569-574

  Matsushita, Shigeto ^a   Tada, Ko Ichi ^a   Kawahara, Ko Ichi ^b   Kawai, Kazuhiro ^a   Hashiguchi, Teruto ^b   Maruyama, Ikuro ^b   Kanekura, Takuro ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Japanese apricot; Malignant melanoma; Prunus mume Sieb. Et Zucc; Triterpenoid

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED GLYCATION END PRODUCT RECEPTOR; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BETA INTERFERON; GLUCOSE; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP B1 PROTEIN; INDOMETACIN; MELAN A; MISATOL; PROTEIN S 100; PRUNUS EXTRACT; PRUNUS MUME EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CELL ASSAY; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL INVASION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOOT SOLE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IN VITRO STUDY; LENTIGO; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MELANOMA; NICK END LABELING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PRUNUS; PRUNUS MUME; SKIN METASTASIS; SKIN NODULE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 80855133196     PISSN: 17920981     EISSN: 17921015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/etm_00000089     Document Type: Article

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