Erythropoietin restores the anemia-induced reduction in radiosensitivity of experimental human tumors in nude mice

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1358-1362

  Stüben, Georg ^a   Pöttgen, Christoph ^a   Knühmann, Kai ^a   Schmidt, Kai ^a   Stuschke, Martin ^a   Thews, Oliver ^b   Vaupel, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anemia; Erythropoietin; Human sarcoma xenografts; Hypoxia; Radiosensitivity

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; HEMOGLOBIN; RADIATION; TUMORS;

XENOGRAFTS;

ONCOLOGY;

ERYTHROPOIETIN;

ANEMIA; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HINDLIMB; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; RADIOSENSITIVITY; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; TUMOR; TUMOR VOLUME; TUMOR XENOGRAFT; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

EID: 0242669348     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(03)00012-9     Document Type: Article

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