Apoptosis induced by anticancer drugs.

doi:10.1007/BF00048059

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Apoptosis induced by anticancer drugs.

Cancer metastasis reviews - 1 Sept 1992

Hickman J A

Abstract excerpt

Most of the cytotoxic anticancer drugs in current use have been shown to induce apoptosis in susceptible cells. The fact that disparate agents, which interact with different targets, induce cell death with some common features (endonucleolytic cleavage of DNA, changes in chromatin condensation) s...

Topics

Animals
Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic
Antineoplastic Agents
Apoptosis
Calcium
Cholesterol
DNA
Glucocorticoids
Humans
Phenotype
Receptors, Glucocorticoid
Topoisomerase I Inhibitors

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