Combination of Clinically-Approved Drugs Packs One-Two Punch Against Cancer Cells (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Combination of Clinically-Approved Drugs Packs One-Two Punch Against Cancer Cells (1 of 2)

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Three dimensional cultures of Huh7 liver cancer cells treated with dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), syrosingopine, metformin and both syrosingopine and metformin. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 23, 2016, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by D. Benjamin at University of Basel in Basel, Switzerland, and colleagues was titled, "Syrosingopine sensitizes cancer cells to killing by metformin."

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Benjmain et al. Sci. Adv. 2016;2:e1601756

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