Effects of photodynamic therapy with hypericin in mice bearing highly invasive solid tumors

Oncology Research

Volumn 12, Issue 9-10, 2000, Pages 409-418

  Blank, Michael ^a   Lavie, Gad ^b,c   Mandel, Mathilda ^b   Keisari, Yona ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Hypericin; Inflammation; Metastases; Photodynamic therapy; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYTOKINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; HYPERICIN; MESSENGER RNA; PERYLENE; RADIOSENSITIZING AGENT;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CELL CULTURE; HUMAN; LIGHT; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; METABOLISM; METASTASIS; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TIME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CYTOKINES; HUMANS; LIGHT; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; PERYLENE; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; RADIATION-SENSITIZING AGENTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0034575112     PISSN: 09650407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/096504001108747864     Document Type: Article

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