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卷 150, 期 2, 页码 147-153出版社
ELSEVIER SCI IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(99)00384-5
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prostate; cancer; multidrug resistance; P-glycoprotein
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Prostate cancers are resistant to many anticancer agents at the time of presentation. P-glycoprotein (P-gp) is believed to mediate multidrug resistance phenotype. To elucidate the possible role of P-gp in such an intrinsic drug resistance of prostate cancers, its expression was examined immunohisochemically using two P-gp isoform-specific monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) with the paraffin embedded prostate samples derived from five nonmalignant and 30 untreated prostate cancer patients. In all of five normal prostate tissues, P-gp was consistently detected with both mAbs in the epithelial cells, especially at their apical site, and the level of expression was higher in the inner zone than in outer zone. On the other hand, tumor cells expressed P-gp heterogeneously in distribution and intensity; in 25 of 30 malignant cases P-gp expression was clearly demonstrated, whereas its expression was only faintly detected in other cases. However, the staining intensities for P-gp in prostate cancer cells were generally lower than in normal prostate epithelial cells. Thus, not only normal prostate epithelial cells but prostate cancer cells express at least MDR1 P-gp isoform, These results suggest that P-gp expression might play some role in intrinsic drug resistance of prostate cancer cells to many cytotoxic drugs as well as in relative resistance of the inner zone cells to the prostate carcinogenesis. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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