Fragility of telomeres after bleomycin and cisplatin combined treatment measured in human leukocytes with the Comet-FISH technique

Experimental Oncology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 38-42

  Arutyunyan, Rouben ^a   Rapp, Alexander ^b   Greulich, Karl Otto ^b   Hovhannisyan, Galina ^a   Haroutiunian, Samvel ^a   Gebhart, Erich ^c  

^a YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Armenia)

^b FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bleomycin; Cisplatin; Comet FISH; Human blood leukocytes; Telomere

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACID; PLATINUM;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; DNA DAMAGE; DNA METABOLISM; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID PROBE; TELOMERE;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; COMET ASSAY; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LEUKOCYTES; TELOMERE;

EID: 17444386675     PISSN: 02043564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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