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Adjective- Killing or tending to kill individual cells.

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  • Rexin-G, a nonreplicative pathology-targeted retroviral vector bearing a cytocidal cyclin G1 construct, was tested in a phase I/II study for gemcitabine-resistant...
  • Radiation-induced gastrointestinal syndrome (RIGS) results from a combination of direct cytocidal effects on intestinal crypt and endothelial cells and subsequent loss...
  • 4 Department of Pathology and Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America Radiation-induced gastrointestinal...
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