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11562740

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-9-19
pubmed:abstractText
Induction of differentiation represents a promising concept for chemotherapy of malignant gliomas, which are often refractory even to the combined treatment with surgery, irradiation and chemotherapy. Since anti-neoplastic alkylphosphocholines can induce differentiation of leukemic cell lines, the effects of the intravenously applicable alkylphosphocholine-derivative erucylphosphocholine (ErPC) on proliferation, morphology and differentiation of the rat glioma cell line C6 was examined in vitro. Short-term exposure to ErPC induced accumulation of the cells in the G2/M-phase of the cell cycle and apoptotic cell death. In contrast, continuous exposure of C6 rat glioma cells to sublethal ErPC doses (30 and 50 microM) caused both the formation of a slower growing tetraploid cell population and astrocytic differentiation. No resistance to in vivo obtainable ErPC concentrations was observed during this treatment. We conclude that ErPC-induced differentiation might be beneficial for a long-term adjuvant chemotherapy of low grade glioma.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
1019-6439
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
19
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
673-80
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Induction of differentiation and tetraploidy by long-term treatment of C6 rat glioma cells with erucylphosphocholine.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Physiology, University of Tubingen, Medical School, D-72076 Tubingen, Germany. verena.jendrossek@uni-tuebingen.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't