Cucurmosin kills human pancreatic cancer SW-1990 cells in vitro and in vivo

Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 952-956

  Xie, Jieming ^a   Wang, Congfei ^a   Yang, Aiqin ^a   Zhang, Baoming ^a   Yin, Qiang ^a   Huang, Heguang ^a   Chen, Minghuang ^b  

^a FUJIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUJIAN INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH ON THE STRUCTURE OF MATTER   (China)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cucurmosin; Pancreatic cancer; Proliferation inhibition

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 9; CUCURMOSIN; GEMCITABINE; INITIATION FACTOR 4E BINDING PROTEIN 1; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN KINASE B; S6 KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CALORIMETRY; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG MEGADOSE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MOUSE; MTT ASSAY; NONHUMAN; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; PANCREAS CANCER; PROLIFERATION INHIBITION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; APOPTOSIS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; CUCURBITA; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, SCID; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PLANT PROTEINS;

EID: 84880160471     PISSN: 18715206     EISSN: 18755992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/18715206113139990109     Document Type: Article

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