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Scriptaid overcomes hypoxia-induced cisplatin resistance in both wild-type and mutant p53 lung cancer cells.
Oncotarget - 1 Nov 2016
Pradhan Shrikant, Mahajan Divyank, Kaur Prabhjot, Pandey Namita, Sharma Chandresh, Srivastava Tapasya
Abstract excerpt
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), comprising 85% of lung cancer cases, has been associated with resistance to chemo/radiotherapy. The hypoxic tumor micro-environment, where insufficient vasculature results in poor drug penetrance and sub-optimal chemotherapy in the tumor interiors contributes heavily to this resistance. Additionally, epigenetic changes in tumorigenic cells also change their response to...
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