The effect of combined nicotinamide and carbogen treatments in human tumour xenografts: Oxygenation and tumour control studies

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 143-148

  Stüben, Georg ^a   Stuschke, Martin ^a   Knühmann, Kai ^a   Horsman, Michael R ^b   Sack, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Breathing modalities; Carbogen; Hypoxia; Nicotinamide; Nude mice; Xenografts

Indexed keywords

CARBOGEN; NICOTINAMIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MOUSE; NEUROFIBROSARCOMA; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE OXYGENATION; TUMOR XENOGRAFT;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ANIMALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CELL HYPOXIA; DRUG COMBINATIONS; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEUROFIBROSARCOMA; NIACINAMIDE; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RADIATION-SENSITIZING AGENTS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SARCOMA; SARCOMA, EXPERIMENTAL; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 18844482218     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(98)00006-1     Document Type: Article

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