TABLE 1

Cross-resistance to drugs in HeLa and HR3 cells

IC50 data are expressed ± S.E. (n = 5); values were calculated from the cytotoxicity curves.

HeLa HR3 Fold resistance
M
Cisplatin (5.5 ± 0.4)×10−8 (9.9 ± 1) ×10−7 18
Mitomycin C (9 ± 1) ×10−8 (9 ± 0.8) ×10−7 10
Ethyl methane-sulfonate (8 ± 0.9) ×10−3 (2.4 ± 0.3)×10−2 5
Colchicine (3 ± 0.2) ×10−8 (4 ± 0.7) ×10−8 1.3
Adriamycin (1.5 ± 0.2) ×10−6 (1.5 ± 0.2)×10−6 1