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Cell death in paclitaxel-dependent chinese hamster ovary cells is initiated by the loss of telomeric DNA repeats.
Oncology research - 1 Jan 1999
Multani A S, Chandra J, Mcconker J, Sen S, Cabral T F, Pathak S
Abstract excerpt
We have reported earlier that cell death in a metastatic murine melanoma cell line induced by paclitaxel and its water-soluble conjugates is mediated through the extensive erosion of telomeric repeats. The purpose of this study was to investigate if loss of telomeric repeats was also involved in cell death of Tax-18 and Tax-2-4, two paclitaxel-requiring mutant Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell lines. Tax-18 and...
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