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Subpopulations of normal peripheral blood and bone marrow cells express a functional multidrug resistant phenotype.
Blood - 1 Dec 1992
Drach D, Zhao S, Drach J, Mahadevia R, Gattringer C, Huber H, Andreeff M
Abstract excerpt
The multidrug-resistance gene, MDR1 is expressed in many normal tissues, but little is known about its expression in normal hematopoietic cells. Using the monoclonal antibody C219 and flow cytometric analysis, P-glycoprotein (P-gp) was found to be expressed in all peripheral blood (PB) subpopulations (CD4, CD8, CD14, CD19, CD56) except granulocytes. To specifically determine MDR1 gene expression, these PB...
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