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Erlotinib (OSI-774)-induced inhibition of transitional cell carcinoma of bladder cell line growth is enhanced by interferon-alpha.
BJU international - 1 Jun 2007
Yang Jia-Lin, Qu Xian-Jun, Hayes Vanessa M, Brenner Phillip C, Russell Pamela J, Goldstein David
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OBJECTIVE: To examine whether erlotinib gives similar results to gefitinib, a small molecule epidermal growth factor receptor (HER1/EGFR) tyrosine kinase (TK) inhibitor that inhibits the growth of human bladder cancer cell lines in vitro, and given that interferon-alpha (IFNalpha) promotes an antiproliferative effect of HER1/EGFR inhibitors on colon cancer cell lines, to also determine the effects of erlotinib...
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