Powerful inhibition of experimental human pancreatic cancers by receptor targeted cytotoxic LH-RH analog AEZS-108

Oncotarget

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 751-760

  Szepeshazi, Karoly ^a,b   Schally, Andrew V ^a,b,c   Block, Norman L ^a,b,c   Halmos, Gabor ^a,b,c,d   Nadji, Mehrdad ^c   Szalontay, Luca ^a,b   Vidaurre, Irving ^a,b   Abi Chaker, Andrew ^a,b,c   Rick, Ferenc G ^a,b,e  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b South Florida VA Foundation for Research and Education   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^e FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytotoxic LHRH analog; Doxorubicin; GnRH; Lh RH receptor; Pancreatic carcinoma; Peptide therapy; Targeted therapy

Indexed keywords

DOXORUBICIN; GONADORELIN RECEPTOR; ZOPTARELIN DOXORUBICIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL INVASION; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG TARGETING; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METASTASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS CANCER; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; TUMOR XENOGRAFT;

EID: 84880313248     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19492553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.1044     Document Type: Article

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