| Literature DB >> 11308264 |
D L Berge1, M De Ridder, V N Verovski, M Y Janssens, C Monsaert, G A Storme.
Abstract
Chronic hypoxia up-regulated the mRNA and protein expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) in EMT-6 tumour cells exposed to interferon (IFN)-gamma and interleukin (IL)-I beta. Low concentrations of cytokines (1 unit ml(-1)) in 1% but not in 21% oxygen induced a remarkable increase in NO production and a 1.8-fold hypoxic cell radiosensitization. Therefore, chronic hypoxia may potentially be exploited to increase tumour cell radioresponse through the cytokine-inducible iNOS pathway. Copyright 2001 Cancer Research Campaign.Entities:
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Year: 2001 PMID: 11308264 PMCID: PMC2363861 DOI: 10.1054/bjoc.2000.1719
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Br J Cancer ISSN: 0007-0920 Impact factor: 7.640