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SUBMITTER: Kita H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4509453 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kita Hiroko H Okamoto Keisei K Kushima Ryoji R Kawauchi Akihiro A Chano Tokuhiro T
Oncology letters 20150602 2
Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) is an amphipathic molecule that is used as a solvent in biological studies and as a vehicle for drug therapy. The present study was designed to evaluate the potential effects of DMSO as a solvent in the treatment of testicular embryonal carcinomas (ECs). DMSO was applied to two human EC cell lines (NEC8 and NEC14), with the treated cells evaluated in relation to cisplatin (CDDP) resistance, differentiation (using Vimentin, Fibronectin, TRA-1-60, and SSEA-1 and -3 as mar ...[more]