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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Sahu N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4976141 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20160803
Acquired resistance to cancer drug therapies almost always occurs in advanced-stage patients even following a significant response to treatment. In addition to mutational mechanisms, various non-mutational resistance mechanisms have now been recognized. We previously described a chromatin-mediated subpopulation of reversibly drug-tolerant persisters that is dynamically maintained within a wide variety of tumour cell populations. Here we explore a potential role for microRNAs in such transient dr ...[more]