Antileukemic activity of combined epigenetic agents, DNMT inhibitors zebularine and RG108 with HDAC inhibitors, against promyelocytic leukemia HL-60 cells

Cellular and Molecular Biology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 501-525

  Savickiene, Jurate ^a   Treigyte, Grazina ^a   Borutinskaite, Veronika Viktorija ^a   Navakauskiene, Ruta ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Differentiation; E cadherin; HDAC inhibitors; Histones; HL 60; RG108; Zebularine

Indexed keywords

4 PHENYLBUTYRIC ACID; BML 210; CD11B ANTIGEN; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR; HISTONE H4; MESSENGER RNA; N PHTHALOYLTRYPTOPHAN; RETINOIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN; ZEBULARINE;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIPROLIFERATIVE ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL ASSAY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRAIN HL 60; CELL SURVIVAL; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMETHYLATION; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; GRANULOCYTE; GROWTH INHIBITION; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA;

EID: 84873270379     PISSN: 14258153     EISSN: 16891392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11658-012-0024-5     Document Type: Article

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