Not exact matches
Giving the mice antibiotics helped
gemcitabine kill tumor cells, increasing the number of tumor cells going through a type of cell death called apoptosis
from about 15 percent to 60 percent or more.
The researchers isolated bacteria
from the tumors of pancreatic cancer patients and tested how they affect the sensitivity of pancreatic cancer cells to
gemcitabine, a chemotherapy drug.
Patients with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) expressing advanced squamous non-small-cell lung cancer benefit most
from necitumumab added to
gemcitabine and cisplatin chemotherapy, according to a subgroup analysis
from the SQUIRE trial presented today at the European Lung Cancer Conference (ELCC) 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland.
In further experiments, Straussman showed that antibiotics stopped bacteria with the long form
from destroying
gemcitabine (Science, doi.org/cc5n).
Based on results
from this and previous studies, pemetrexed and
gemcitabine were included in a St. Jude - led multicenter clinical trial of children and adolescents newly diagnosed with medulloblastoma.
Researchers demonstrated that the drugs pemetrexed and
gemcitabine killed cells
from mouse and human brain tumors, called group 3 medulloblastoma, growing in the laboratory.
A low, non-genotoxic, dose (about 1 nM) of ActD has been shown to induce a reversible cytostatic effect in normal proliferating dermal fibroblasts and protect them
from the aneuploidy induced by the aurora kinase inhibitor VX - 680 and the toxic effects of
gemcitabine [46, 47].