Anticancer effects of a non-narcotic opium alkaloid medicine, papaverine, in human glioblastoma cells

• Mana Inada,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba, Japan

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• Mika Shindo,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba, Japan, National Cancer Center Hospital, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Kyousuke Kobayashi,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba, Japan

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• Akira Sato ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: akirasat@rs.tus.ac.jp (AS); tanuma@rs.noda.tus.ac.jp (S-iT)

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2239-6208

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• Yohei Yamamoto,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Jikei University School of Medicine, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yasuharu Akasaki,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Jikei University School of Medicine, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Koichi Ichimura,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Validation

  Affiliation Division of Brain Tumor Translational Research, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Sei-ichi Tanuma

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision

  * E-mail: akirasat@rs.tus.ac.jp (AS); tanuma@rs.noda.tus.ac.jp (S-iT)

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba, Japan, Department of Genomic Medicinal Science, Research Institute for Science and Technology, Organization for Research Advancement, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba, Japan

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