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SUBMITTER: Jorfi S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4548233 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jorfi Samireh S Ansa-Addo Ephraim A EA Kholia Sharad S Stratton Dan D Valley Shaunelle S Lange Sigrun S Inal Jameel J
Scientific reports 20150825
Microvesicles shed from cells carry constituents of the cell cytoplasm, including, of importance in multidrug resistance to cancer chemotherapy, drugs that the tumor cell attempts to efflux. To see whether such drugs could be used at lower concentrations with the same efficacy, it was first shown that microvesiculation of prostate cancer (PCa) cells, PC3, could be inhibited pharmacologically with calpeptin (calpain inhibitor) and by siRNA (CAPNS1). In cells treated with docetaxel (DTX), this inh ...[more]