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Microparticle-associated nucleic acids mediate trait dominance in cancer.
FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology - 1 Jan 2012
Jaiswal Ritu, Gong Joyce, Sambasivam Shwetha, Combes Valery, Mathys Jean-Marie, Davey Ross, Grau Georges E R, Bebawy Mary
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Drug resistance is a major cause of cancer treatment failure, with multidrug resistance (MDR) being the most serious, whereby cancer cells display cross-resistance to structurally and functionally unrelated drugs. MDR is caused by overexpression of the efflux transporters P-glycoprotein (P-gp) and multidrug resistance-associated protein 1 (MRP1). These transporters act to maintain sublethal intracellular drug...
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