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O6-Methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase in pediatric primary brain tumors: relation to patient and tumor characteristics.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 1 Mar 2001
Bobola M S, Berger M S, Ellenbogen R G, Roberts T S, Geyer J R, Silber J R
Abstract excerpt
The DNA repair protein O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) confers resistance to methylating and chloroethylating agents in pediatric medulloblastoma- and glioma-derived cell lines and xenografts. Here, we assayed MGMT activity in 110 pediatric brain tumors to establish correlates with...
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