%0 Journal Article %T The novel mechanism of anticancer effect on gastric cancer through inducing G0/G1 cell cycle arrest and caspase-dependent apoptosis in vitro and in vivo by methionine enkephalin %A Fengping Shan %A Jin Geng %A Jing Tian %A Ning Liu %A Noreen Griffin %A Reizhe Wang %A Xiaonan Wang %A Xinghua Gao %A Xue Jiao %A Yuan Gao %J Archive of "Cancer Management and Research". %D 2018 %R 10.2147/CMAR.S178343 %X Gastric cancer (GC) is the second cause of cancer-related deaths. Methionine enkephalin (MENK), an endogenous opioid peptide, has immunological and antitumor activity %K MENK %K GC cells %K OGFr %K cell cycle %K apoptosis %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6201847/