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Combination therapy: Photochemotherapy; electric current; and ionizing radiation. Different combinations studied in a WiDr human colon adenocarcinoma cell line

✍ Scribed by Liwei Ma; Vladimir Iani; Johan Moan


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1993
Tongue
English
Weight
583 KB
Volume
21
Category
Article
ISSN
1011-1344

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✦ Synopsis


The interactions of pairs of the modalities Photofrin II-sensitized photochemotherapy (PCT), ionizing radiation and an electric current were investigated by the colony formation assay in WiDr cells, a human colon adenocarcinoma cell line. When the cells were treated simultaneously with PCT and an electric current, a slightly synergistic effect was observed at low exposures (surviving fraction -0.1) while a seemingly antagonistic effect was found at higher exposures.

The same was found to be true for the combinations of PCT plus ionizing radiation and ionizing radiation plus electric current.