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Mitomycin C And Porfiromycin: Studies On Bioactivation And Cytotoxicity In Cultured Cell Lines, Paula Marie Fracasso
Mitomycin C And Porfiromycin: Studies On Bioactivation And Cytotoxicity In Cultured Cell Lines, Paula Marie Fracasso
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Solid neoplasms are known to contain deficient or poorly functional vascular beds and as a result populations of cells in these solid tumors may contain hypoxic or poorly oxygenated tumor cells. These hypoxic tumor cells may form a therapeutically resistant cell population within the tumor difficult to eradicate by ionizing radiation and most existing chemotherapeutic agents. As a consequence, this dissertation has investigated the mechanism of bioactivation and cytotoxicity of mitomycin C and porfiromycin, structurally similar antibiotics which are selectively cytotoxic to hypoxic cells.Mitomycin C was preferentially cytotoxic to hypoxic EMT6 and V79 cells in culture, but was not selectively …