Article
Molecular aspects of cancer cell resistance to chemotherapy.
Biochemical pharmacology - 1 May 2013
Rebucci Magali, Michiels Carine
Abstract excerpt
Cancer cell resistance to chemotherapy is still a heavy burden that impairs treatment of cancer patients. Both intrinsic and acquired resistance results from the numerous genetic and epigenetic changes occurring in cancer cells. Most of the hallmarks of cancer cells provide general mechanisms to sustain stresses such as the ones induced by chemotherapeutic drugs. Moreover, specific changes in the target bring...
Topics
- Animals
- Antineoplastic Agents
- Apoptosis
- Biomarkers, Tumor
- DNA Damage
- Drug Resistance, Neoplasm
- Genes, Tumor Suppressor
- Humans
- Mutation
- Neoplasms
- Neoplastic Stem Cells
- Oncogenes
- Tumor Microenvironment
