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Effects of perturbations of pools of deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates on expression of ribonucleotide reductase, a G1/S transition state enzyme, in p53-mutated cells.
Biochemical pharmacology - 1 May 1998
Wadler S, Horowitz R, Zhang H Y, Schwartz E L
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Effects of drug treatment with antimetabolites on a human colon cancer cell line, SW480, were studied. Cells were treated with 10 microM of 5-fluorouracil (5FU), an inhibitor of pyrimidine synthesis, or 1000 microM of hydroxyurea (HU), an inhibitor of both purine and pyrimidine syntheses, or the combination. Recombinant alpha-2a-interferon (IFN), 500 U/mL, also was employed, as this augments the effects of both...
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