Combination therapy with 5-fluorouracil and IFN-α2a induces a nonrandom increase in DNA fragments of less than 3 megabases in HT29 colon carcinoma cells

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1317-1322

  Horowitz, Robert W ^a   Heerdt, Barbara G ^a   Hu, Xioaping ^a   Schwartz, Edward L ^a   Wadler, Scott ^a,b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; FLUOROURACIL; RECOMBINANT ALPHA2A INTERFERON; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COLON CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; DRUG EFFECT; ETIOLOGY; GAMMA IRRADIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA DAMAGE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA, NEOPLASM; FLUOROURACIL; HT29 CELLS; HUMANS; INTERFERON ALFA-2A; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030854002     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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