Resistance of pleural mesothelioma cell lines to apoptosis: relation to expression of Bcl-2 and Bax

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A failure of normal apoptosis, often due to mutant p53, may contribute to the formation of a cancer and to its resistance to therapy. Mesothelioma, an asbestos-induced tumor, is highly resistant to therapy but generally expresses wild-type p53. We asked whether mesothelioma was resistant to apoptosis and whether resistance was associated with altered expression of the antiapoptotic protein Bcl-2 or proapoptotic...

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