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A pathway to therapeutic destruction
Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20010815-02
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Pancreatic cancers contain defective apoptotic pathways, making the tumour cells resistant to current chemotherapy regimes. But, in August Gut Detjen and colleagues from the Humboldt University, Berlin show that there is still an intact proapoptotic pathway in pancreatic cancer cells activated by interferon γ (IFN-γ) and/or procaspase-1 which may have therapeutic potential.
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