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p53 determines multidrug sensitivity of childhood neuroblastoma.
Cancer research - 1 Nov 2007
Xue Chengyuan, Haber Michelle, Flemming Claudia, Marshall Glenn M, Lock Richard B, MacKenzie Karen L, Gurova Katerina V, Norris Murray D, Gudkov Andrei V
Abstract excerpt
For pediatric cancers like neuroblastoma, the most common extracranial solid tumor of infancy, p53 mutations are rare at diagnosis, but may be acquired after chemotherapy, suggesting a potential role in drug resistance. Heavy metal-selected neuroblastoma cells were found to acquire an unusually broad multidrug resistance (MDR) phenotype but displayed no alterations in genes associated with "classic" MDR. These...
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