A polysaccharide fraction of adlay seed (Coix lachryma-jobi L.) induces apoptosis in human non-small cell lung cancer A549 cells

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 430, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 846-851

  Lu, Xiangyi ^a   Liu, Wei ^a   Wu, Junhua ^a   Li, Mengxian ^a   Wang, Juncheng ^b   Wu, Jihui ^b   Luo, Cheng ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

A549; Apoptosis; Coix; Polysaccharides

Indexed keywords

ANNEXIN; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 9; COIX LACHRYMA JOBI SEED EXTRACT; DNA; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; PLANT EXTRACT; POLYSACCHARIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; CHINA; COIX LACRYMA JOBI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; APOPTOSIS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 9; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; COIX; COMET ASSAY; DNA DAMAGE; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL, MITOCHONDRIAL; POLYSACCHARIDES; SEEDS;

COIX; COIX LACRYMA-JOBI;

EID: 84872354980     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2012.11.058     Document Type: Article

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