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Functional analysis of the involvement of apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 in the resistance to melphalan in multiple myeloma.
BMC cancer - 8 Jan 2014
Xie Jiayin, Zhang Liang, Li Mengxia, Du Jia, Zhou Liwei, Yang Senlin, Zeng Linli, Li Zengpeng, Wang Ge, Wang Dong
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BACKGROUND: Melphalan resistance has been considered one of the major obstacles to improve outcomes in multiple myeloma (MM) therapy; unfortunately, the mechanistic details of this resistance remain unclear. Melphalan is a highly effective alkylating agent which causes many types of DNA lesions, including DNA base alkylation damage that is repaired by base excision repair (BER). We postulated that human...
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