Gap Junction Enhancer Increases Efficacy of Cisplatin to Attenuate Mammary Tumor Growth
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Gap Junction Enhancer Increases Efficacy of Cisplatin to Attenuate Mammary Tumor Growth
Cisplatin treatment has an overall 19% response rate in animal models with malignant tumors. Increasing gap junction activity in tumor cells provides the targets to enhance antineoplastic therapies. Previously, a new class of substituted quinolines (PQs) acts as gap junction enhancer, ability to increase the gap junctional intercellular communication, in breast cancer cells. We examined the eff...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044963