Cancer Letters
Volume 275, Issue 1 , Pages 54-60 , 8 March 2009

Polygonatum cyrtonema lectin induces apoptosis and autophagy in human melanoma A375 cells through a mitochondria-mediated ROS–p38–p53 pathway

  • Bo Liu

      Affiliations

    • College of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, Sichuan University, Wuhou District, Chengdu 610064, China
    • ,
  • Yan Cheng

      Affiliations

    • Department of Natural Products Chemistry, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang 110016, China
    • ,
  • Bo Zhang

      Affiliations

    • College of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, Sichuan University, Wuhou District, Chengdu 610064, China
    • ,
  • He-jiao Bian

      Affiliations

    • College of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, Sichuan University, Wuhou District, Chengdu 610064, China
    • ,
  • Jin-ku Bao

      Affiliations

    • College of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, Sichuan University, Wuhou District, Chengdu 610064, China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel./fax: +86 28 85411914.

Received 16 August 2008 ,Revised 26 September 2008 ,Accepted 30 September 2008.

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PII: S0304-3835(08)00803-3

doi: 10.1016/j.canlet.2008.09.042

Cancer Letters
Volume 275, Issue 1 , Pages 54-60 , 8 March 2009

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