Investigation of the usefulness of the photodynamic reaction for the purging of bone marrow from metastatic neuroblastoma cells

✍ Scribed by A. Köhler; A. Müller; F. Zintl

• Book ID: 103994456
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 323 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1011-1344
• DOI: 10.1016/1011-1344(93)87088-5

✦ Synopsis

The neuroblastoma cell lines SK-N-LO, SK-PN-DW and IMR 5 were stained with Merocyanine 540 and exposed to white light. 99% of clonogenic tumour cells were destroyed while 60% of bone marrow progenitor cells survived this treatment.