Enhancement of the efficacy of anticancer drugs with electroporation: Successful electrochemotherapy against gastric cancer cell lines in vivo and in vitro

International Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 111-117

  Kambe, Mariko ^a   Arita, Daisaku ^a   Kikuchi, Hiroaki ^b   Funato, Tadao ^c   Tezuka, Fumiaki ^a   Gamo, Makio ^a   Murakawa, Yasuko ^a   Kanamaru, Ryunosuke ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Miyagi Cancer Center   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

5 fluorouracil; Bleomycin; Cisplatin; Doxorubicin; Electroporation; Gastric cancer cell line; Multidrug resistance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008287322     PISSN: 13419625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02488882     Document Type: Article

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