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CANCER LETTERS
Volume 150, Issue 1, Pages 85-92Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(99)00375-4
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Ukrain; selective toxicity; reversibility; cancer
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Ukrain(TM) is alleged to be an effective chemotherapeutic drug which causes minimal side-effects as a result of selective toxicity towards malignant cells only. We previously failed to confirm this claim and found Ukrain(TM) to be equally toxic to normal, transformed and malignant cell lines by causing a metaphase arrest. In this study we have found the antimitotic actions of Ukrain(TM) to be reversible in low doses in vitro, as shown by flow cytometry and concurrent haematoxylin and eosin stains. We hypothesize that the lack of side-effects found in vivo may be due to the lack of therapeutically effective dosages being administered, therefore enabling cells to overcome the metaphase arrest and survive. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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