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Temozolomide-induced severe myelosuppression: analysis of clinically associated polymorphisms in two patients.
Anti-cancer drugs - 1 Jan 2011
Sylvester Robert K, Steen Preston, Tate John M, Mehta Minesh, Petrich Ryan J, Berg Alexander, Kolesar Jill
Abstract excerpt
Genotyping of putative determinants of temozolomide (TMZ)-induced life-threatening bone marrow suppression was performed in two patients with glioma treated with adjuvant TMZ and radiation therapy. DNA was extracted from the patients' mononuclear cells and genotyping of O-methylguanine-DNA-methyltransferase (MGMT), multidrug resistance (MDR1; also known as ABCB1), NQO1, and GSTP1 genes and analysis for the...
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