Autophagy-dependent cell cycle arrest in esophageal cancer cells exposed to dihydroartemisinin

• Main Authors: Qiang Ma (Author), Hebin Liao (Author), Lei Xu (Author), Qingrong Li (Author), Jiang Zou (Author), Ru Sun (Author), Dan Xiao (Author), Chang Liu (Author), Wenjie Pu (Author), Jibing Cheng (Author), Xi Zhou (Author), Guangcheng Huang (Author), Lihua Yao (Author), Xiaowu Zhong (Author), Xiaolan Guo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Dihydroartemisinin (DHA), a derivate of artemisinin, is an effective antimalarial agent. DHA has been shown to exert anticancer activities to numerous cancer cells in the past few years, while the exact molecular mechanisms remain to be elucidated, especially in esophageal cancer...