Increase in the fraction of necrotic, not apoptotic, cells in SiHa xenograft tumours shortly after irradiation

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 113-119

  Olive, Peggy L ^a   Vikse, Charlene M ^a   Vanderbyl, Sandra ^a  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Comet assay; DNA damage; Xenograft tumours

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ISOTOPE LABELING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIMETABOLITES; APOPTOSIS; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CARCINOMA; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA DAMAGE; DNA, NEOPLASM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; G1 PHASE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, SCID; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NECROSIS; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032982136     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(98)00104-2     Document Type: Article

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