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curlz

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on: Jun 17, 2013
For a chemotherapeutic drug to be useful for treating cancer cells, which of the following is most desirable?
A) It is safe enough to limit all apoptosis.
B) It does not alter metabolically active cells.
C) It only attacks cells that are density dependent.
D) It interferes with cells entering G0.
E) It interferes with rapidly dividing cells.


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Reply #1 on: Jun 18, 2013
Go with E, I'm quite sure it's that.


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Reply #2 on: Jul 29, 2013
Great..that really helped.


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