Bookedited by John D. Schuetz, Toshihisa Ishikawa.
Summary: ABC Transporters and Cancer provides invaluable information on the exciting and fast-moving field of cancer research. Here, outstanding and original reviews are presented on a variety of topics. This volume covers ABC transporters and cancer, and is suitable for researchers and students alike.
Contents:
Apical ABC transporters and cancer chemotherapeutic drug disposition / Selvi Durmus, Jeroen J.M.A. Hendrikx and Alfred H. Schinkel
Regulation of ABC transporters blood-brain barrier: the good, the bad, and the ugly / David S. Miller
Molecular basis of the polyspecificity of p-glycoprotein (ABCB1):recent biochemical and structural studies / Eduardo E. Chufan, Hong-May Sim, and Suresh V. Ambudkar
Lipid regulation of the ABCB1 and ABCG2 multidrug transporters / Csilla Hegedüs, Ágnes Telbisz, Tamás Hegedüs, Balázs Sarkadi and Csilla Özvegy-Laczka
ABC transporters and neuroblastoma / Denise M.T. Yu, Tony Huynh, Alan M. Truong, Michelle Haber and Murray D. Norris
Leukemia and ABC transporters / Yu Fukuda, Shangli Lian and John D. Schuetz
Critical role of ABCG2 in ALA-photodynamic diagnosis and therapy of human brain tumor / Toshihisa Ishikawa, Yoshinaga Kajimoto, Yutaka Inoue, Yoji Ikegami and Toshihiko Kuroiwa
Role of ABC transporters in fluoropyrimidine-based chemotherapy response / Anne T. Nies, Tarek Magdy, Matthias Schwab and Ulrich M. Zanger.