ArticleBritish journal of cancer1997
Thrombin has a bimodal effect on glioma cell growth.
Article in British journal of cancer, 1997. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Abstract
Using rat glioma C6 cells as a model, we have found a bimodal effect of alpha-thrombin on cell growth. In C6 cells treated with alpha-thrombin at concentrations from 0.02 nM to 1.0 nM, inhibition of cell proliferation was noted. Because the thrombin receptor agonist peptide TRAP-6 also induced inhibition of cell proliferation and the thrombin receptor antagonist peptide T1 prevented the inhibitory effect of alpha-thrombin on C6 glioma cell growth, thrombin receptor involvement in antiproliferative action of alpha-thrombin in C6 glioma cells is highly likely. However, stimulation of cell proliferation observed when C6 cells were treated with alpha-thrombin at higher doses (> 1.0 nM) seems to be mediated by as yet undefined thrombin receptor-independent biochemical mechanisms.
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