Article
Bax is an important determinant of chemosensitivity in pediatric tumor cell lines independent of Bcl-2 expression and p53 status.
Oncology research - 1 Jan 1998
McPake C R, Tillman D M, Poquette C A, George E O, Houghton J A, Harris L C
Abstract excerpt
Susceptibility of a tumor cell to undergo chemotherapy-induced apoptosis appears to be dependent upon the balance of proapoptotic and survival factors that are expressed within any given cell. We have chosen to evaluate how expression of several of these proteins influences chemosensitivity of a...
Topics
- Animals
- Apoptosis
- Child
- Glioma
- Humans
- Mutation
- Neuroblastoma
- Nuclear Proteins
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-mdm2
- Rabbits
- Rhabdomyosarcoma
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
- Tumor Suppressor Protein p53
- bcl-2-Associated X Protein
