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2001 NOV 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Pangene Corporation announced that chemotherapy-resistant ovarian and colon cancer tumors treated with DNA base excision repair (BER) inhibitors drugs become more sensitive to DNA damaging chemotherapeutics.
A study entitled, "Base excision repair inhibitor drugs sensitize mammalian cells to iododeoxyuridine-induced cytotoxicity and radiosensitivity," was presented at the 2001 AACR-NCI-EORTC International Conference on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics in Miami Beach, Florida, in October and was published in the conference proceedings.
"Several independent lines of evidence show the involvement of BER in the molecular mechanisms by which iododeoxyuridine (IdUrd) and certain other DNA base analogues cause cytotoxicity and radiosensitization of tumors," said Pietro Taverna, PhD, Pangene Corporation. "We ...
Source: HighBeam Research, DNA Base Excision Repair Inhibitor Drugs Enhance Chemotherapy.(Brief...