Anticancer effect and apoptosis induction by quercetin in the human lung cancer cell line A-549

Molecular Medicine Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 822-826

  Zheng, Shi Ying ^a   Li, Yin ^b   Jiang, Dong ^a   Zhao, Jun ^a   Ge, Jin Feng ^a  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Thoracic Surgery   (China)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bax; bcl 2; Quercetin

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; FLUOROURACIL; LIPOCORTIN 5; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; QUERCETIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUNG CANCER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR GROWTH; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; QUERCETIN; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 84863066655     PISSN: 17912997     EISSN: 17913004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2011.726     Document Type: Article

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