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Possible Interaction: Caffeine and Mechlorethamine

supplement:

Caffeine

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Mechlorethamine

Research Papers that Mention the Interaction

Caffeine enhances lethality of agents such as HN2.
Princess Takamatsu symposia  •  1983  |  View Paper
The addition of 2 mM caffeine during the first 24 hr after nitrogen mustard decreased viability more than 95%.
Cancer research  •  1982  |  View Paper
Caffeine (2mM) increased the lethality of HN2 by 5- to 10-fold.
Our results show that caffeine potentiates the lethality of the nitrogen mustard 2-chloro-N-(2-chloroethyl)-N-methylethanamine (HN2) by inducing damaged cells to undergo mitosis before properly repairing lesions in their DNA.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America  •  1982  |  View Paper
Evidently this effect is due to inhibition of the action of caffeine by nitrogen mustard since nitrogen mustard also causes a decreasein the efficiency of caffeine after UV-irradiation.
Mutation research  •  1972  |  View Paper
When sensitized to mustard action by treatment with iodoacetamide, acriflavine or caffeine , the extent of alkylation of cellular DNA corresponding to a mean lethal dose was decreased to approximately 3 molecules of di(guanin-7-ylethyl) sulphide in the genome of this strain.
The Biochemical journal  •  1968  |  View Paper