Association between tissue hypoxia and elevated non-protein sulphydryl concentrations in human cervical carcinoma xenografts

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 989-993

  Moreno Merlo, F ^a,b   Nicklee, T ^a   Hedley, D W ^a,b  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Glutathione; Hypoxia; Image cytometry

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; GLUTATHIONE; MERCURY DERIVATIVE; METALLOTHIONEIN; NITROIMIDAZOLE; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOXEMIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCID MOUSE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STAINING; TUMOR XENOGRAFT; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GLUTATHIONE; HUMANS; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; MICE; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032700854     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6690797     Document Type: Article

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