Icariin displays anticancer activity against human esophageal cancer cells via regulating endoplasmic reticulum stress-mediated apoptotic signaling

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Fan, Chongxi ^a   Yang, Yang ^b   Liu, Yong ^c   Jiang, Shuai ^b   Di, Shouyin ^a   Hu, Wei ^b   Ma, Zhiqiang ^a   Li, Tian ^b   Zhu, Yifang ^a   Xin, Zhenlong ^b   Wu, Guiling ^b   Han, Jing ^a   Li, Xiaofei ^a   Yan, Xiaolong ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c GUANGZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CASPASE 9; FLAVONOID; GLUTATHIONE; HERBACEOUS AGENT; ICARIIN; INITIATION FACTOR 2; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; PROTEIN BCL 2; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOTION; CELL SURVIVAL; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG SCREENING; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 9; CELL ADHESION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL SURVIVAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2; FLAVONOIDS; GLUTATHIONE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; NADP; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOGRAFT MODEL ANTITUMOR ASSAYS;

EID: 84959016901     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep21145     Document Type: Article

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