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Osteoblastic differentiation and P-glycoprotein multidrug resistance in a murine osteosarcoma model.
British journal of cancer - 1 Apr 2000
Takeshita H, Kusuzaki K, Murata H, Suginoshita T, Hirata M, Hashiguchi S, Ashihara T, Gebhardt M C, Mankin H J, Hirasawa Y
Abstract excerpt
A recent study of multidrug resistance (MDR) 1 gene transfected osteosarcoma cells found a cause-effect relationship between increased expression of P-glycoprotein (P-gp) and a low aggressive phenotype. However, several experimental and clinical studies have observed contradictory findings in that P-gp expression has been associated with tumour progression. In the present study, we characterized P-gp-positive and...
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