Cancer Letters
Volume 201, Issue 1 , Pages 41-49 , 10 November 2003

Modified arabinoxylan rice bran (MGN-3/Biobran) sensitizes human T cell leukemia cells to death receptor (CD95)-induced apoptosis

  • Mamdooh Ghoneum

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otolaryngology, Drew University of Medicine and Science, 1621 E. 120th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90059, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1-323-563-5953; fax: +1-310-474-6724
    • ,
  • Sastry Gollapudi

      Affiliations

    • University California Irvine, Division of Basic and Clinical Immunology, Irvine, CA 92697, USA

Received 10 February 2003 ,Revised 10 June 2003 ,Accepted 23 June 2003.

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doi: 10.1016/S0304-3835(03)00458-0

Cancer Letters
Volume 201, Issue 1 , Pages 41-49 , 10 November 2003

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