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Caffeine enhanced radiosensitivity of rat tumor cells with a mutant-type p53 by inducing apoptosis in a p53-independent manner.
Cancer letters - 1 May 2000
Higuchi K, Mitsuhashi N, Saitoh J, Maebayashi K, Sakurai H, Akimoto T, Niibe H
Abstract excerpt
The radiosensitizing effects of caffeine on two rat yolk sac tumor cell lines with a different p53 status were investigated. A reduction of radiation-induced G(2) arrest was caused by caffeine at a concentration of 2 mM in both cell lines. The reduction of survival was observed in a combination of radiation and 2 mM caffeine only in a lower radiation dose range, but not in a higher dose range in NMT-1 with a wild...
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