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ABCG2: determining its relevance in clinical drug resistance.
Cancer metastasis reviews - 1 Mar 2007
Robey Robert W, Polgar Orsolya, Deeken John, To Kin Wah, Bates Susan E
Abstract excerpt
Multidrug resistance is a major obstacle to successful cancer treatment. One mechanism by which cells can become resistant to chemotherapy is the expression of ABC transporters that use the energy of ATP hydrolysis to transport a wide variety of substrates across the cell membrane. There are three human ABC transporters primarily associated with the multidrug resistance phenomenon, namely Pgp, MRP1, and ABCG2....
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