title: Multidrug resistance in cancer.
abstract: Chemotherapy often fails because a tumor develops resistance to an array of different drugs. A single glycoprotein turns out to be responsible: it proliferates in some cells and pumps out the drugs. Now that the protein pump has been identified it may be possible to interfere with its action or to make it the target for drugs that destroy the cancer cell.
authors.affiliation: University of Toronto.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kartner
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ling
mesh_terms: D020168:ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 1; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004351:Drug Resistance; D006801:Humans; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D020168:ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 1; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins