title: DNA damage and repair in normal and neoplastic cells treated with adriamycin.
abstract: Adriamycin (ADR), a common antineoplastic drug, was used to study DNA repair synthesis, cell cytotoxicity and DNA single strand breaks in normal human fibroblasts--CLV98 and human melanoma cells--ME18. No repair synthesis was observed in ME18 and CLV98 cells exposed to adriamycin in concentrations up to 10(-5) M. ME18 cells were less sensitive to ADR treatment than CLV98 cells. Adriamycin-induced DNA single strand breaks (at ADR concentration: 1 microgram/ml) were incompletely repaired in ME18 cells and unrepaired in CLV98 cells within 24 h after drug removal. Within 48 h strand breaks were completely repaired in both kinds of cells. No repair of single strand breaks was observed in ME18 and CLV98 cells after drug treatment in the concentration of 5 micrograms/ml.
authors.affiliation: Drug Institute, Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: E L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Anuszewska
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gruber
mesh_terms: D002460:Cell Line; D004249:DNA Damage / Q000187:drug effects*; D004261:DNA Replication / Q000187:drug effects; D004317:Doxorubicin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D004317:Doxorubicin