Up-regulation of cyclooxygenase-2 expression is involved in R(+)-methanandamide-induced apoptotic death of human neuroglioma cells

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1643-1651

  Hinz, Burkhard ^a   Ramer, Robert ^a   Eichele, Karin ^a   Weinzierl, Ulrike ^a   Brune, Kay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 (2,4 DICHLOROPHENYL) 5 (4 IODOPHENYL) 4 METHYL N (1 PIPERIDYL) 1H PYRAZOLE 3 CARBOXAMIDE; 5 (4 CHLOROPHENYL) 1 (4 METHOXYPHENYL) 3 TRIFLUOROMETHYL 1H PYRAZOLE; 6 IODO 3 (4 METHOXYBENZOYL) 2 METHYL 1 (2 MORPHOLINOETHYL)INDOLE; BISBENZIMIDE; CANNABINOID 1 RECEPTOR; CANNABINOID 2 RECEPTOR; CELECOXIB; CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; DICLOFENAC; DRONABINOL; FUMONISIN B1; METHANANDAMIDE; N (2 CYCLOHEXYLOXY 4 NITROPHENYL)METHANESULFONAMIDE; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 1;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL DEATH; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE SILENCING; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

APOPTOSIS; ARACHIDONIC ACIDS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PROSTAGLANDIN-ENDOPEROXIDE SYNTHASES;

EID: 9444229367     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/mol.104.002618     Document Type: Article

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