New Insight into P-Glycoprotein as a Drug Target

doi:10.2174/187152013804487380

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New Insight into P-Glycoprotein as a Drug Target

11 Dec 2012

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Multidrug resistance (MDR) of cancer tissue is a phenomenon in which cancer cells exhibit reduced sensitivity to a large group of unrelated drugs with different mechanisms of pharmacological activity. Mechanisms that reduce cell sensitivity to damage induced by a variety of chemicals were found to be caused by diverse, albeit well-defined, phenotypic alterations. The molecular basis of MDR commonly involves...

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