Apoptosis inducers in chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Oncotarget

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 309-325

  Billard, Christian ^a,b  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DES CORDELIERS   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Apoptosis inducers; Apoptosis targeted therapies; Bcl 2 family proteins; CLL; Impaired cell death program

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; APIGENIN; ARYLCOUMARIN; BH3 PROTEIN; CASPASE; COMBRETASTATIN; CURCUMIN; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; DIAMINOMETHOXYFLAVONE; EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; FENRETINIDE; FLAVOPIRIDOL; GOSSYPOL; GX 070; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR; HOMOHARRINGTONINE; HYPERFORIN; INTERLEUKIN 21; OBATOCLAX; PROTEASOME INHIBITOR; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN INHIBITOR; QUERCETIN; RESVERATROL; SILVESTROL; TRITERPENOID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VINBLASTINE; XANTHOHUMOL; XANTHONE DERIVATIVE; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT;

CARCINOGENESIS; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG STRUCTURE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; DRUG EFFECTS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC, B-CELL; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC, B-CELL;

EID: 84896734169     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19492553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.1480     Document Type: Review

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