Article
Multidrug resistance in oncology: diagnostic and therapeutic approaches
1 Jun 1999
Abstract excerpt
Resistance to anticancer drugs is often mediated by the overexpression of a membrane pump able to extrude many xenobiotics out of the tumour cells. The most frequently expressed of these pumps is called P-glycoprotein and is encoded by a gene called MDR1 (for multidrug resistance). There could be great clinical interest for investigating the expression of this gene or of its product in patients' tumours, as well...
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