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ABSTRACT:
INSTRUMENT(S): DNA Microarray Scanner BA [Agilent Technologies]
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Elena Morandi
PROVIDER: E-MEXP-751 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Cancer letters 20060101 1
Chemotherapy, as generally available, is of a limited value in curing malignant brain tumors (gliomas), which often develop resistance to drugs, becoming completely unresponsive to any standard therapeutic approach. Camptothecins, a family of topoisomerase I inhibitor drugs, represent a new promising treatment strategy and are currently under evaluation for testing the clinical efficacy. We selected a CPT-resistant sub-line (U87CPT-R) from U87-MG grade III-IV astrocytoma cells, and compared the ...[more]