Effect of interferon on 5-fluououracil-induced perturbations in pools of deoxynucleotide triphosphates and DNA strand breaks

Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 529-535

  Wadler, Scott ^a   Horowitz, Robert ^a   Mao, Xun ^a   Schwartz, Edward L ^a  

^a MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biochemical modulation; DNA strand breaks; Fluorouracil; Interferon; Nucleotides

Indexed keywords

DEOXYADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DEOXYCYTIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DEOXYGUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; FLUOROURACIL; PARATHION; RECOMBINANT ALPHA2A INTERFERON; THYMIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; CELL LINE; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; DNA SYNTHESIS; GAMMA RADIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BASE SEQUENCE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; DNA DAMAGE; DNA, NEOPLASM; DRUG SYNERGISM; FLUOROURACIL; HT29 CELLS; HUMANS; INTERFERON ALFA-2A; THYMINE NUCLEOTIDES; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0029823120     PISSN: 03445704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002800050522     Document Type: Article

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