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Sofia I Pascu1, Philip A Waghorn, Timothy D Conry, Bonita Lin, Helen M Betts, Jonathan R Dilworth, Robert B Sim, Grant C Churchill, Franklin I Aigbirhio, John E Warren.
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We report the synthesis and characterisation of new, highly fluorescent, zinc complexes of bis(thiosemicarbazone) ligands incorporating extended aromatic backbones which are cytotoxic at levels comparable to cisplatin; cellular fluorescence imaging studies suggest these cause cell death by disruption of mitochondria.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 18398535 DOI: 10.1039/b802806k
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Dalton Trans ISSN: 1477-9226 Impact factor: 4.390