Pentoxifylline enhances tumor oxygenation and radiosensitivity in rat rhabdomyosarcomas during continuous hyperfractionated irradiation

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 180, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 306-314

  Zywietz, Friedrich ^a   Böhm, Lothar ^b   Sagowski, Christoph ^a   Kehrl, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Pentoxifylline; Radiotherapy; Rat rhabdomyosarcoma; Tumor oxygenation

Indexed keywords

PENTOXIFYLLINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TENSION; OXYGENATION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIOSENSITIVITY; RAT; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SARCOMA; TUMOR VOLUME;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; MALE; OXYGEN; PENTOXIFYLLINE; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; RADIATION TOLERANCE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RATS; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2442681660     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-004-1198-1     Document Type: Article

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