A molecular complex of bovine milk protein and oleic acid selectively kills cancer cells in vitro and inhibits tumour growth in an orthotopic rat bladder tumour model

BJU International

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Xiao, Zhengwen ^a,b   Mak, Allan ^a,b   Koch, Karen ^c   Moore, Ronald B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c NatImmune A/S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

apoptosis; bLAC; bladder cancer; lactalbumin; tumour model

Indexed keywords

ALPHA LACTALBUMIN; BCG VACCINE; DNA; OLEIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER PREVENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; DNA DETERMINATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ACCUMULATION; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SELECTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LC 50; LOW DRUG DOSE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR SPHEROID;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVESICAL; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG SCREENING ASSAYS, ANTITUMOR; FEMALE; LACTALBUMIN; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; OLEIC ACIDS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84879690430     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2012.11737.x     Document Type: Article

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