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SUBMITTER: Wang YJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4276951 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Yi-Jun YJ Zhang Yun-Kai YK Kathawala Rishil J RJ Chen Zhe-Sheng ZS
Cancers 20140929 4
The phenomenon of multidrug resistance (MDR) has attenuated the efficacy of anticancer drugs and the possibility of successful cancer chemotherapy. ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters play an essential role in mediating MDR in cancer cells by increasing efflux of drugs from cancer cells, hence reducing the intracellular accumulation of chemotherapeutic drugs. Interestingly, small-molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), such as AST1306, lapatinib, linsitinib, masitinib, motesanib, nilotin ...[more]