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Cervical Cancer
Reports summarize cervical cancer study results from National Chung-Hsing University
May 7th, 2009
"Cdk5 is a small serine/threonine protein kinase which belongs to Cdk family. Unlike other Cdk members. so far Cdk5 is known to be irrelevant in cell cycle," investigators in Taichung, Taiwan report. "Cdk5 kinase activity is regulated by binding with its activator, p35. Our previous results indicate that Cdk5 and p35 are involved in drugs-induced apoptosis of prostate cancer cells. Retinoic acid (RA) is one of the vitamin A-related compounds. Because of its potency on biological functions, it has been widely studied in its novel actions including the ability to inhibit cancer cell growth and to induce apoptosis. Here, we report that RA treatment decreased the growth of...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-05-07)
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