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p53 mutant human glioma cells are sensitive to UV-C-induced apoptosis due to impaired cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer removal.
Molecular cancer research : MCR - 1 Feb 2009
Batista Luis F Z, Roos Wynand P, Kaina Bernd, Menck Carlos F M
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The p53 protein is a key regulator of cell responses to DNA damage, and it has been shown that it sensitizes glioma cells to the alkylating agent temozolomide by up-regulating the extrinsic apoptotic pathway, whereas it increases the resistance to chloroethylating agents, such as ACNU and BCNU, p...
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