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Expression of breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP/ABCG2) in human placenta throughout gestation and at term before and after labor
1 Dec 2006
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Breast cancer resistance protein, BCRP, is a multidrug resistance protein that is highly expressed in the human placenta. In cancer tissues, this protein actively extrudes a wide variety of chemically and structurally unrelated chemotherapeutic drugs and other compounds. Studies in mice have shown that in the absence of BCRP activity in the placenta, there is a 2-fold increase in the uptake in BCRP substrates...
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