Ceramide synthase 6 knockdown suppresses apoptosis after photodynamic therapy in human head and neck squamous carcinoma cells

Anticancer Research

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 753-760

  Separovic, Duska ^a   Breen, Paul ^a   Joseph, Nicholas ^a   Bielawski, Jacek ^b   Pierce, Jason S ^b   Van Buren, Eric ^a   Gudz, Tatyana I ^b,c  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Ceramide; Ceramide synthase 6; Dihydroceramide; Head and neck squamous carcinoma; PDT; Sphingolipids; UM SCC 22A cells

Indexed keywords

CERAMIDE; CERAMIDE SYNTHASE 6; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SPHINGOLIPID; TRYPAN BLUE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DOWN REGULATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE SILENCING; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MITOCHONDRION; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BASE SEQUENCE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DNA PRIMERS; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; SPHINGOSINE N-ACYLTRANSFERASE;

EID: 84858780894     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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