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1National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Medicine Branch, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Abstract:
Resistance to chemotherapeutic agents constitutes one of the major obstacles to the successful treatment of cancer. While several mechanisms underlying drug resistance have been elucidated, the most widely studied mechanism involves the efflux of antineoplastic drugs from cancer cells by P-glycoprotein, the 170 kD glycoprotein product of the MDR-I gene. The observation that several compounds are able to inhibit P-glycoprotein in vitro created optimism that the problem of multidrug resistance in cancer could be quickly resolved by moving these compounds into the clinic. However, despite a large number of clinical trials with several different putative Pgp modulators, the value of Pgp modulation in clinical oncologic practice remains unresolved. While these initial trials have not answered the question of whether Pgp is an important mechanism of resistance in human cancers, or whether modulation of Pgp is likely to positively impact on the treatment of cancer, they have provided insights regarding the problems inherent in conducting trials of this nature. These clinical insights, along with knowledge gained from continued basic research on drug resistance mediated by Pgp and related transporters, will form a strong foundation for future research into the role of Pgp and Pgp modulation in the treatment of cancer. The ubiquitous nature of transporters and the high prevalence of transporter substrates among antineoplastic drugs, compel the development of modulators that can be used to prevent or reverse drug resistance.
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