The P-glycoprotein multidrug transporter

O Fardel, V Lecureur, A Guillouzo - General Pharmacology: The Vascular …, 1996 - Elsevier
1. P-glycoprotein (P-gp) is a transmembrane protein involved in ATP-dependent efflux of
various structurally unrelated anticancer drugs. Its overexpression in cancer cells decreases …

New insight into p-glycoprotein as a drug target

A Breier, L Gibalova, M Seres… - Anti-Cancer Agents in …, 2013 - ingentaconnect.com
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 …

Multidrug resistance and the role of P-glycoprotein knockout mice

AH Schinkel, C Mol, E Wagenaar… - European Journal of …, 1995 - Elsevier
Drug resistance, be it intrinsic or acquired, is a major problem in cancer chemotherapy. In
vitro, one well characterised form of resistance against many different cytotoxic drugs is …

SB203580, a specific inhibitor of p38-MAPK pathway, is a new reversal agent of P-glycoprotein-mediated multidrug resistance

M Barančı́k, V Boháčová, J Kvačkajová… - European journal of …, 2001 - Elsevier
P-glycoprotein (P-gp) is the plasma membrane transport pump responsible for efflux of
chemotherapeutic agents from cells and is one of the systems that secures multidrug …

Molecular mechanisms for tumour resistance to chemotherapy

ST Pan, ZL Li, ZX He, JX Qiu… - Clinical and Experimental …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Chemotherapy is one of the prevailing methods used to treat malignant tumours, but the
outcome and prognosis of tumour patients are not optimistic. Cancer cells gradually …

[HTML][HTML] Disrupting P-glycoprotein function in clinical settings: what can we learn from the fundamental aspects of this transporter?

FS Chung, JS Santiago, MFM De Jesus… - American journal of …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
P-glycoprotein is one of the most well-studied drug transporters, significant for its role in
cancer multiple drug resistance. However, using P-gp inhibitors with the aim of enhancing …

Intercellular transfer of P-glycoprotein mediates acquired multidrug resistance in tumor cells

A Levchenko, BM Mehta, X Niu… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
The overexpression of P-glycoprotein (P-gp) causes resistance to chemotherapy in many
tumor types. Here, we report intercellular transfer of functional P-gp from P-gp-positive to P …

P-glycoproteins: mediators of multidrug resistance

UA Germann, I Pastan, MM Gottesman - Seminars in cell biology, 1993 - Elsevier
Multidrug resistance represents a major obstacle to successful chemotherapy of metastatic
disease. Elevated levels in cancer cells if the product of the multidrug resistance gene, P …

P-glycoproteins and multidrug resistance.

WT Bellamy - Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology, 1996 - europepmc.org
Multidrug resistance represents a major obstacle in the successful therapy of neoplastic
diseases. Studies have demonstrated that this form of drug resistance occurs both in …

P-glycoprotein and multidrug resistance

MM Gottesman, I Pastan, SV Ambudkar - Current opinion in genetics & …, 1996 - Elsevier
Although the phenomenon of simultaneous resistance to multiple cytotoxic drugs (multidrug
resistance) in cancer cells has been discussed for more than two decades, and the human …