An echo-contrast agent, Levovist, lowers the ultrasound intensity required to induce apoptosis of human leukemia cells.

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Published in Cancer Lett on December 27, 2005

Authors

Hidetaka Ando1, Loreto B Feril, Takashi Kondo, Yoshiaki Tabuchi, Ryohei Ogawa, Qing-Li Zhao, Zheng-Guo Cui, Shin-Ichiro Umemura, Hideki Yoshikawa, Takuro Misaki

Author Affiliations

1: First Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Toyama 930-0194, Japan.

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