A Review of Cyclophosphamide
A Review of Cyclophosphamide
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环磷酰胺的综述
DOI:
10.1038/bjc.1975.258
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发表时间:
1975
影响因子:
8.8
通讯作者:
B. Fox
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作者:
B. Fox
521 useful primarily for its review of the functional anatomy of the lymphoid system given by Fabrikant. Indeed, the main value of the volume rests in its reviews and in the variety of techniques employed so that it may prove a useful reference source. It is perhaps a pity that one has to wait until the mid point of the meeting to read Mendlesohn's assessment of the cell cycle in malignant and normal tissues. In this excellent review both the technology of cell kinetics experimentation and comparisons of cell behaviour are brought out very strongly and it is recommended that the reader turns first to this article. Frindel, Dethlefsen and Valeriote all present overall studies of cell proliferation under radiation or drug treatments leading to a rational design of cancer therapeutic procedures. Valeriote, however, is wise in recognizing cell population kinetics as only one of about two dozen factors and the purpose of his review is to put cell cycle analysis in tumour therapy in its proper perspective. Again it is a pity that this paper comes so late in the proceedings. Much legitimate concern is shown by a number of authors over the problems created by studying asynchronously proliferating populations of cells which have a random age and mixed chemical composition. They accordingly resort to artificially synchronized populations (mainly in vitro) in the anticipation of obtaining relevant information before the cells become, once more, asynchronous. The reader may take his choice and chance on any of a number of techniques for producing cell proliferative synchrony. Such conditions were commonly used for the biochemical observations and several authors demonstrate a marked cyclicity of enzyme and cyclic AMP levels related to phases of the cell cycle. To the non-biochemist, this group of papers can provide a quick reference point to such biochemical intricacies as, for example, cyclic AMP metabolism and poly-amine biosynthesis. An analytical essay on mitotic control in the body is presented by Cameron and liberally supported with examples. He cites three levels of control: (i) general, affecting all proliferative populations, (2) specific, for certain organs, tissues or populations and (3) local action between cells of the same population. This article removes the blinkers that have occasionally beset this type of work and makes essential reading for a student 36 of cell proliferation control. Regrettably he omits consideration of a fourth type of control, namely local action between cells of …