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Triona Ni Chonghaile1, Kristopher A Sarosiek, Thanh-Trang Vo

  • 1Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|October 29, 2011
PubMed
まとめ

癌患者の化学療法反応は,腫瘍細胞がプログラム細胞死亡にどれだけ近いかを測定するミトコンドリアプライミングと関連しています. 高プライムの腫瘍は,化学療法に対するよりよい反応を示しており,この性質が治療戦略を導く可能性があることを示唆しています.

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