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Beneficial Effects of Endotoxins pp 497–512Cite as

Enhancement of Nonspecific Resistance to Tumor by Endotoxin

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Since the late 1800s, bacterial products have been used as antitumor agents for the treatment of cancer patients. In spite of the fact that most patients treated with these products have been in advanced stages of the disease, the clinical results obtained have been generally encouraging and occasionally remarkable. Endotoxin has been shown to be one of the most potent antitumor components in these bacterial preparations. Therefore, endotoxin has been extensively studied in animal tumor models to determine the conditions under which it may be used most effectively against tumors.

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Butler, R.C. (1983). Enhancement of Nonspecific Resistance to Tumor by Endotoxin. In: Nowotny, A. (eds) Beneficial Effects of Endotoxins. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4364-6_25

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