Cytotoxic drug resistance mechanisms /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Brown, Robert, 1956 January 8-, Böger-Brown, Uta
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [1999]
Series:Methods in molecular medicine ; 28.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Drug resistance: the clinical perspective
  • Cell sensitivity assays: clonogenic assay
  • Cell sensitivity assays: the MTT assay
  • Cell sensitivity assays: detection of apoptotic cells in vitro using the TUNEL assay
  • Analysis of apoptosis in tissue sections
  • Measurement of P-glycoprotein function
  • Measuring MDR-1 by quantitative RT-PCR
  • Microtiter plate technique for the measurement of glutathione in fresh and cryopreserved lymphoblasts using the enzyme recycling method
  • Measurement of reduced glutathione using high-pressure liquid chromatography
  • Topoisomerase I and II activity assays
  • 5-fluorouracil metabolising enzymes
  • Measuring DNA adducts by immunoassay (ELISA)
  • Measuring drug-DNA adducts in individual cells
  • Measurement of drug-induced DNA interstrand crosslinking using the single-cell gel electrophoresis (Comet) assay
  • PCR analysis of microsatellite instability
  • O⁶-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase assay
  • Analysis of the p53 status of tumors: an overview of methods
  • Bcl-2 family immunohistochemistry
  • Genetic analysis of drug resistance by fluorescence in situ hybridization
  • Genetic analysis of drug resistance by reverse in situ hybridization.