| Literature DB >> 3457021 |
L M Slater, P Sweet, M Stupecky, S Gupta.
Abstract
The development of drug resistance by tumor cells is a major obstacle to the cure of human malignancy. Cyclosporin A (CsA) completely reverses primary resistance to vincristine and cross resistance to daunorubicin in a pleiotropic drug-resistant subline of human T cell acute lymphatic leukemia. This subline is over 50-fold resistant to vincristine and fivefold resistant to daunorubicin. CsA has little effect on vincristine or daunorubicin activity in drug-sensitive parental leukemia and corrects daunorubicin resistance without altering cellular daunorubicin accumulation.Entities:
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Year: 1986 PMID: 3457021 PMCID: PMC424510 DOI: 10.1172/JCI112450
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Invest ISSN: 0021-9738 Impact factor: 14.808