PNU 157977: A new potent antitumour agent exhibiting low in vivo toxicity in mice injected with L1210 leukaemia cells

Anti-Cancer Drug Design

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 71-76

  Baraldi, Pier Giovanni ^a   Balboni, Gianfranco ^a   Romagnoli, Romeo ^a   Spalluto, Giampiero ^a   Cozzi, Paolo ^b   Geroni, Cristina ^b   Mongelli, Nicola ^b   Rutigliano, Cristina ^a   Bianchi, Nicoletta ^a   Gambari, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b Preclinical Research Division   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alkylation; Dibromo nitrogen mustard; Murine leukaemia model; Pyrazole; Tallimustine analogues

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CHLORMETHINE DERIVATIVE; DNA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PNU 157977; TALLIMUSTINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ALKYLATION; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA PROBE; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG SYNTHESIS; LEUKEMIA L 1210; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID TUMOR; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SURVIVAL TIME;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, ALKYLATING; CELL SURVIVAL; DISTAMYCINS; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DRUG DESIGN; LEUKEMIA L1210; MICE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NITROGEN MUSTARD COMPOUNDS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0032963567     PISSN: 02669536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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