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Radiation-Sensitizing Agents

Known as: Agents, Radiation-Sensitizing, Radiation Sensitizing Drugs, Radiosensitizing Drugs 
Drugs used to potentiate the effectiveness of radiation therapy in destroying unwanted cells.
National Institutes of Health

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Review
1991
Review
1991
A therapeutic benefit from combining normobaric carbogen or oxygen with nicotinamide in fractionated X-ray treatments.
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Enhancement of radiation-induced tumor cell killing by the hypoxic cell toxin SR 4233.
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Initial report of the phase I trial of the hypoxic cell radiosensitizer SR-2508.
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Pharmacology and toxicology of sensitizers: mechanism studies.
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
Ro-07-0582 as a radiosensitizer and cytotoxic agent.
Review
1977
Review
1977
The use of nitroaromatic compounds as hypoxic cell radiosensitizers.
Highly Cited
1975
Highly Cited
1975
Tests of two electron-affinic radiosensitizers in vivo using regrowth of an experimental carcinoma.
Two electron-affinic nitroimidazoles have been investigated as potential radiosensitizers using tumor regrowth as a measure of… 
Highly Cited
1975
Highly Cited
1975
Phase 1 study of high-dose metronidazole: a specific in vivo and in vitro radiosensitizer of hypoxic cells.
Metronidazole was administered orally to 25 patients and its maximum concentration in blood and tumor tissues, its ability to… 
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
Hypoxic cell radiosensitizers: comparative tests of some electron affinic compounds using epidermal cell survival in vivo.
The ability of certain electron affinic compounds to sensitize hypoxic cells to radiation has been tested using an in vivo assay… 
Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
Effectiveness of nitrofuran derivatives in sensitizing hypoxic mammalian cells to x rays.
Abstract Various nitrofuran derivatives have been tested with Chinese hamster cells growing in vitro to determine their toxicity… 
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