Taxol Sensitizes Human Astrocytoma Cells to Radiation

Cancer Research

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 1992, Pages 3495-3497

  Tishler, Roy B ^a   Geard, Charles R ^a   Hall, Eric J ^a   Schiff, Peter B ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PACLITAXEL;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA CELL; CELL CYCLE PHASE; CELL KINETICS; CELL SURVIVAL; CLONOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MITOSIS INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSENSITIZATION; TIME;

ALKALOIDS; ASTROCYTOMA; CELL DIVISION; HUMAN; PACLITAXEL; RADIATION-SENSITIZING AGENTS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0026684820     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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