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dc.contributor.authorRafferty, Joseph A
dc.contributor.authorHickson, Ian
dc.contributor.authorChinnasamy, Nachimuthu
dc.contributor.authorLashford, Linda S
dc.contributor.authorMargison, Geoffrey P
dc.contributor.authorDexter, T Michael
dc.contributor.authorFairbairn, Leslie J
dc.date.accessioned2010-04-01T15:11:04Z
dc.date.available2010-04-01T15:11:04Z
dc.date.issued1996-09
dc.identifier.citationChemoprotection of normal tissues by transfer of drug resistance genes. 1996, 15 (3):365-83 Cancer Metastasis Rev.en
dc.identifier.issn0167-7659
dc.identifier.pmid9034597
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/BF00046348
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10541/95506
dc.description.abstractThe effectiveness of many types of antitumour agent is limited by (i) acute dose limiting cytotoxicity, principally myelosuppression but also lung, liver and gastrointestinal tract toxicity, (ii) the risk of therapy related secondary malignancy and (iii) the inherent or acquired drug-resistance of tumour cells. As the management of the acute toxic effects improve, the more insidious effects, and particularly haematological malignancies, are anticipated to increase. Furthermore, attempts to overcome tumour cell resistance to treatment can lead to increased collateral damage in normal tissues. One approach to circumventing both the acute toxic and chronic carcinogenic effects of chemotherapy would be to use gene therapy to achieve high levels of expression of drug resistance proteins in otherwise drug-sensitive tissues. To date the products of the multi-drug resistance (MDR-1) and the human O6-alkylguanine-DNA-alkyltransferase (ATase) gene have been used in preclinical experiments to demonstrate proof of principle, and the former of these is now being tested in a clinical situation. Here we discuss the potential of drug-resistance gene therapy to provide chemoprotection to normal tissues and examine the prospects for a dual approach which combines this with pharmacological sensitisation of tumours to chemotherapeutic agents.
dc.language.isoenen
dc.subjectCancer Drug Resistanceen
dc.subject.meshATP-Binding Cassette Transporters
dc.subject.meshAntineoplastic Agents
dc.subject.meshBone Marrow Diseases
dc.subject.meshDrug Resistance, Multiple
dc.subject.meshDrug Resistance, Neoplasm
dc.subject.meshGene Transfer Techniques
dc.subject.meshHumans
dc.subject.meshMethyltransferases
dc.subject.meshMultidrug Resistance-Associated Proteins
dc.subject.meshO(6)-Methylguanine-DNA Methyltransferase
dc.titleChemoprotection of normal tissues by transfer of drug resistance genes.en
dc.typeArticleen
dc.contributor.departmentCRC Department of Carcinogenesis, Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, Christie Hospital (NHS)-Trust, Manchester, UK.en
dc.identifier.journalCancer Metastasis Reviewsen
html.description.abstractThe effectiveness of many types of antitumour agent is limited by (i) acute dose limiting cytotoxicity, principally myelosuppression but also lung, liver and gastrointestinal tract toxicity, (ii) the risk of therapy related secondary malignancy and (iii) the inherent or acquired drug-resistance of tumour cells. As the management of the acute toxic effects improve, the more insidious effects, and particularly haematological malignancies, are anticipated to increase. Furthermore, attempts to overcome tumour cell resistance to treatment can lead to increased collateral damage in normal tissues. One approach to circumventing both the acute toxic and chronic carcinogenic effects of chemotherapy would be to use gene therapy to achieve high levels of expression of drug resistance proteins in otherwise drug-sensitive tissues. To date the products of the multi-drug resistance (MDR-1) and the human O6-alkylguanine-DNA-alkyltransferase (ATase) gene have been used in preclinical experiments to demonstrate proof of principle, and the former of these is now being tested in a clinical situation. Here we discuss the potential of drug-resistance gene therapy to provide chemoprotection to normal tissues and examine the prospects for a dual approach which combines this with pharmacological sensitisation of tumours to chemotherapeutic agents.


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