Cancer metabolism: A therapeutic perspective

Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 11-31

  Martinez Outschoorn, Ubaldo E ^a   Peiris Pagés, Maria ^b,c   Pestell, Richard G ^a   Sotgia, Federica ^b,c,d   Lisanti, Michael P ^b,c  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; ATORVASTATIN; CAPECITABINE; CYTARABINE; DICHLOROACETIC ACID; DOXORUBICIN; EPACADOSTAT; ETOMOXIR; FLUDARABINE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLIC ACID ANTAGONIST; GEMCITABINE; HYDROXYCITRIC ACID; HYDROXYUREA; INDISULAM; INDOXIMOD; MERCAPTOPURINE; METFORMIN; METHOTREXATE; PACLITAXEL; PEMETREXED; PENTOSTATIN; PERHEXILINE; PHENFORMIN; PRALATREXATE; PURINE DERIVATIVE; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; RNA; SIMVASTATIN; UNINDEXED DRUG; ACETYL COENZYME A; AMINO ACID; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; FATTY ACID; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; KETONE BODY; LACTIC ACID; LIPID; MTOR PROTEIN, HUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID; PYRUVIC ACID; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; BIOENERGY; CANCER CELL; CELL METABOLISM; CELL PROLIFERATION; DNA REPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GLUTATHIONE METABOLISM; GLYCOLYSIS; GLYCOSYLATION; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; LIPOGENESIS; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; TUMOR GROWTH; ADAPTATION; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; AUTOPHAGY; BIOSYNTHESIS; DRUG EFFECTS; ENERGY METABOLISM; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRIAL RIBOSOME; MITOCHONDRION; NEOPLASMS; PHYSIOLOGY; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

ACETYL COENZYME A; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACIDS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANTIOXIDANTS; AUTOPHAGY; BLOOD GLUCOSE; ENERGY METABOLISM; EPIGENOMICS; FATTY ACIDS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; HUMANS; KETONE BODIES; LACTIC ACID; LIPIDS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL RIBOSOMES; NEOPLASMS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PYRUVIC ACID; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84965082412     PISSN: 17594774     EISSN: 17594782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrclinonc.2016.60     Document Type: Review

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