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Multidrug resistance mediated by P-glycoprotein in haematological malignancies.
The Netherlands journal of medicine - 1 Jun 1993
Pasman P C, Schouten H C
Abstract excerpt
The phenomenon that a tumour, resistant to a cytotoxic drug, is also resistant to a large number of other drugs used in cancer chemotherapy, is called multidrug resistance. A transmembrane protein, known as P-glycoprotein (P-gp), is involved in this resistance pattern. P-gp is able to pump large, lipophilic molecules out of the cell. 'Naturally occurring' drugs such as the anthracyclines and the Vinca alkaloids...
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