Article
[Multidrug or pleiotropic resistance].
Acta cientifica venezolana - 1 Jan 2000
Arvelo F, Merentes E, Cotte C
Abstract excerpt
The resistance to cytotoxic drugs represents a major obstacle to successful cancer therapy. The intrinsic resistance of tumoral cells is one of major causes of treatment failure. The overexpression of a membrane associated glycoprotein, P-glycoprotein, in tumoral cell lines, resistant to a wide range of drugs, permitted the description of a multidrug resistance (MDR) phenotype. This P-glycoprotein, which appears...
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