AIMS (1) To investigate the immunohistochemical expression of the multidrug resistance gene (MDR1) product P-glycoprotein in histological samples from 31 hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs); and (2) to correlate the results with cell proliferation, p53 expression, the disease-free interval, and cumulative patient survival. METHODS C219 (a monoclonal antibody), CM-1 (a polyclonal rabbit anti-huma...

Antineoplastic agents may be very effective in the first round of combination chemotherapy; however, upon subsequent treatment, many tumours display resistance. In many instances , drug resistance is observed to multiple agents which differ in structure as well as in their mechanism of action. Development of such multidrug resistance (MDR) is a major obstacle in the treatment of a variety of ma...

Freeze-etch electron microscopy of Sindbis virus and of glycoprotein arrays derived from Sindbis membranes by nonionic detergent treatment shows that the local geometry of glycoprotein-glycoprotein interaction does not depend on the presence of the nucleocapsid.

BACKGROUND Storing platelets for transfusion at room temperature increases the risk of microbial infection and decreases platelet functionality, leading to out-date discard rates of up to 20%. Cold storage may be a better alternative, but this treatment leads to rapid platelet clearance after transfusion, initiated by changes in glycoprotein Ibα, the receptor for von Willebrand factor. DESIGN...

P-glycoprotein, encoded by the multidrug resistance (MDR)-1 gene, expels various drugs from cells resulting in multidrug resistance. We found previously that interleukin-2, a lymphocyte-activation cytokine, induces P-glycoprotein expression on lymphocytes. Lymphocyte activation involves adhesion with the extracellular matrix, such as hyaluronan, through adhesion molecules on lymphocytes. We inv...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Expression of the multidrug resistance P-glycoprotein, a transmembrane drug transporter, is influenced by recently described polymorphisms of the human MDR1 gene. Hematopoietic cells, such as lymphocytes, and hematopoietic stem cells, express P-glycoprotein, but the effect of MDR1 gene polymorphisms on P-glycoprotein activity in stem cells is unknown. We investigated w...