Tolerance to O6-Methylguanine and 6-Thioguanine Cytotoxic Effects: A Cross-resistant Phenotype in N-Methylnitrosourea-resistant Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells

Cancer Research

Volumn 50, Issue 14, 1990, Pages 4248-4253

  Aquilina, Gabriele ^a   Giammarioli, Anna Maria ^a   Zijno, Andrea ^a   Di Muccio, Alfonso ^a   Dogliotti, Eugenia ^a   Bignami, Margherita ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 O METHYLGUANINE; METHYLNITROSOUREA; TIOGUANINE; DNA; DRUG DERIVATIVE; GUANINE; O (6) METHYLGUANINE; O-(6)-METHYLGUANINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHO CELL; DNA ADDUCT; DRUG RESISTANCE; HAMSTER; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ALKYLATION; ANIMAL; CELL CLONE; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA REPAIR; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; KINETICS; METABOLISM; OVARY; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE;

ALKYLATION; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; CLONE CELLS; CRICETULUS; DNA; DNA REPAIR; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; GUANINE; HAMSTERS; KINETICS; METHYLNITROSOUREA; OVARY; PHENOTYPE; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; THIOGUANINE;

EID: 0025194458     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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