Artesunate inhibits the growth of gastric cancer cells through the mechanism of promoting oncosis both in vitro and in vivo

Anti-Cancer Drugs

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 920-927

  Zhou, Xiang ^a   Sun, Wei Jian ^a   Wang, Wei Ming ^a   Chen, Ke ^a   Zheng, Ji Hang ^a   Lu, Ming Dong ^a   Li, Pi Hong ^a   Zheng, Zhi Qiang ^a  

^a WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

artesunate; calpain; gastric cancer; oncosis

Indexed keywords

ARTESUNATE; CALCIUM; CALPAIN 2; DOCETAXEL; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IC 50; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STOMACH CANCER; TUMOR REGRESSION; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; ARTEMISININS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CALPAIN; CELL DEATH; CELL HYPOXIA; CELL LINE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SURVIVAL; GASTRIC MUCOSA; HUMANS; INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION 50; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TUMOR BURDEN; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; XENOGRAFT MODEL ANTITUMOR ASSAYS;

EID: 84883432719     PISSN: 09594973     EISSN: 14735741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CAD.0b013e328364a109     Document Type: Article

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