Docosahexaenoic acid-induced apoptosis is mediated by activation of mitogen-activated protein kinases in human cancer cells

BMC Cancer

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Jeong, Soyeon ^a   Jing, Kaipeng ^a   Kim, Nayeong ^a   Shin, Soyeon ^a   Kim, Soyeon ^a   Song, Kyoung Sub ^a   Heo, Jun Young ^a   Park, Ji Hoon ^a   Seo, Kang Sik ^a   Han, Jeongsu ^a   Wu, Tong ^b   Kweon, Gi Ryang ^a   Park, Seung Kiel ^a   Park, Jong Il ^a   Lim, Kyu ^a  

^a Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cancer; Docosahexaenoic acid; Mitogen activated protein kinases; Reactive oxygen species

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; CASPASE 3; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; METALLOPROTEINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; SUPEROXIDE; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER CELL LINE; CELL COUNT; CELL VIABILITY; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY; NICK END LABELING; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; CELL SURVIVAL; DRUG EFFECTS; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; NEOPLASM; TUMOR CELL LINE;

APOPTOSIS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SURVIVAL; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACIDS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; NEOPLASMS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

EID: 84904426623     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-14-481     Document Type: Article

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