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Cobalamin Potentiates Vinblastine Cytotoxicity Through Downregulation of mdr-1 Gene Expression in HepG2 Cells
1 Jan 2007
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BACKGROUND: P-glycoprotein (Pgp), produced by multidrug resistance-1 gene (mdr-1), is a main mechanism developed by cancer cells to guard against anti-cancer drugs. Alterations of DNA methylation of the mdr-1 gene promoter are known to be linked to mdr-1 gene expression and are probably related to intracellular S-adenosyl-methionine. We here used HepG2 cells to determine the role of the methionine cycle (through...
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