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2009
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- Trypanosoma cruzi, cancer and the Cold War Nikolai Krementsov Historia Cold War Nina Kliueva GrigoriiRoskin cancer research Trypanosoma cruzi In the summer of 1946, theinternational community of cancerresearchers was inspired by theannouncement that two Sovietscientists, Nina Kliueva and GrigoriiRoskin, had discovered anticancerproperties in culture extracts madefrom the South American protozoan,Trypanosoma cruzi, and had produced apreparation – named after itsdiscoverers KR – which showed cleartherapeutic effects on cancer patients.Research teams from various countriesenthusiastically pursued the promisingnew line of investigation. The story ofthe rise and fall of interest in theanticancer properties of T. cruzi indifferent countries suggests that duringthe second half of the twentiethcentury, the Cold War competitionbetween the superpowers played animportant role in shaping the researchagendas of cancer studies. 2009 artículo científico 0104-5970 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=386138047005 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3861 História, Ciências, Saúde - Manguinhos application/pdf Fundação Oswaldo Cruz História, Ciências, Saúde - Manguinhos (Brasil) Vol.16