Toxins from the Caribbean sea anemone Bunodeopsis globulifera increase cisplatin-induced cytotoxicity of lung adenocarcinoma cells

Background Lung cancer causes 1.4 million deaths worldwide while non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) represents 80-85% of the cases. Cisplatin is a standard chemotherapy against this type of cancer; however, tumor cell resistance to this drug limits its efficacy. Sea anemones produce compounds with p...
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Monroy-Estrada, Heidi I [verfasserIn]

Chirino, Yolanda I

Soria-Mercado, Irma E

Sánchez-Rodríguez, Judith

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E-Artikel

Sprache:

Englisch

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2013

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Cnidaria

Pharmacology

Human lung cancer cells

Cytotoxicity assay

Cisplatin efficacy

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© Monroy-Estrada et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2013. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (

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Enthalten in: The journal of venomous animals and toxins including tropical diseases - Botucatu : CEVAP, 1995, 19(2013), 1 vom: 07. Mai

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volume:19 ; year:2013 ; number:1 ; day:07 ; month:05

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DOI / URN:

10.1186/1678-9199-19-12

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SPR036397776

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