Use of the comet assay to identify cells sensitive to tirapazamine in multicell spheroids and tumors in mice

Cancer Research

Volumn 56, Issue 19, 1996, Pages 4460-4463

  Olive, Peggy L ^a   Vikse, Charlene M ^a   Banáth, Judit P ^a  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TIRAPAZAMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHO CELL; COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; HISTOGRAM; HYPOXIC CELL; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MOUSE; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL HYPOXIA; CELL SURVIVAL; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA, NEOPLASM; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, SCID; MICROCHEMISTRY; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; TRIAZINES; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0029740039     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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