Abstract:
The present invention relates to novel methods for the identification of compounds useful for the treatment of drug resistance, and to novel treatment methods using the identified compounds.
Abstract:
Disclosed are methods for detecting multidrug resistance in neoplastic or damaged cells or multidrug resistant (MDR) neoplastic or damaged cells by detecting an increase in the cell surface expression of vimentin protein in such cells as compared to the level of cell surface expression of vimentin protein in a normal cell or a non-MDR neoplastic cell.
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Methods for separating living neoplastic cells from dead cells in a tumor sample, using a "vital stain" (e.g. propidium iodide) are provided. These methods are useful for prognosis, diagnosis, assessment of staging and disease progression in human cancer patients. The first method is a generic method involving antibodies that specifically bind neoplastic cells. The second method is a specific method to test the resistance of neoplastic cells to cytotoxic compounds using antibodies against a discrimination compound for apoptotic cells (e.g. Annexin V). The second method also determines the gene profile after cell sorting using a hybridisation array. The difference in gene expression between drug resistant and drug sensitive tumor cells can thus be employed to make clinical decisions.
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The present invention pertains to novel modulators of tumor resistance against T-cell mediated cytotoxic immune responses. The invention provides antagonists of tumor immune escape mechanisms and methods and other aspects related thereto, and therefore provides novel approaches for treating or aiding a treatment of various cancerous diseases and/or the diagnosis thereof. The invention pertains to both negative and positive regulators of tumor cell resistance and suggests the use inhibitors or activators of these genes for therapeutic purposes. Inparticular aspects, the invention provides combination therapeutics and/or therapies involving such inhibitors or activators. The invention furthermore provides screening methods for novel cancer therapeutics modulating the action of the identified genes,diagnostic approaches to detect cancer resistance to cytotoxic T-cells as well as pharmaceutical compositions and diagnostic kits, for use with or related to for performing these methods.
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A method of rapidly evaluating the susceptibility of a strain of bacteria to a cell wall synthesis inhibiting antibiotic based on an assessment of cell enlargement in response to doses of the cell wall synthesis inhibiting antibiotic which are correlated to breakpoints of bacterial susceptibility.
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Nueva línea celular de cáncer de mama positiva para el marcador HER2 que ha desarrollado resistencia inducida a los fármacos lapatinib y trastuzumab, caracterizada por que los receptores EGFR, HER2, y HER4 se encuentran hiperfosforilados. Esta línea celular puede ser utilizada en metodologías de cribado para la identificación de nuevos compuestos anticancerígenos con los que tratar el cáncer de mama resistente.
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The specification provides compositions and methods for treating cancer with non cancerous cell extracellular vesicles. Extracellular vesicles act as a surrogate microenvironment to reverse the drug-resistance or cancerous phenotype of cancer cells towards a non cancerous phenotype.
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The invention relates to methods, kits and compositions using CD247 as a biomarker for assessing the efficacy and selecting an appropriate therapy such as chemotherapeutic, biological therapy or combined therapy for treating a subject suffering from a pathologic disorder that leads to a chronic-inflammatory condition.
Abstract:
A method of identification of drug targets and drug resistance mechanisms in human cells of a drug comprising the steps of: generating at least one drug-resistant sample and at least one drug-sensitive sample; analyzing substantial portions of the genome and/or transcriptome of the least one drug-resistant sample and drug-sensitive sample to obtain sequencing data; detecting substantially all alterations in the at least drug-resistant sample; deriving a resistance signature; and performing analysis of the drug resistance signature of at least one recurrently altered gene using bioinformatic tools and cellular biology methods to determine if alteration of the at least one gene of the drug resistance signature is sufficient to confer at least partial resistance to cells or tissues against the drug.
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The present invention relates to a method for determining whether a subject is resistant to certain types of chemotherapy, specifically chemotherapy in which DNA damaging agents are used. A method of determining whether a subject is resistant to chemotherapy with DNA damaging agents, said method comprising determining whether a sample from said subject is capable of reducing the low dose hyper-radiosensitivity (HRS) phenotype in HRS proficient cells, said subject being resistant to said chemotherapy if said sample is capable of reducing the HRS phenotype in HRS proficient cells is provided. Preferred methods involve detection of free extracellular TGβ3 in said sample, determining whether the sample has the ability to increase cell survival in cells in response to radiation that induces the HRS phenotype in HRS proficient cells and determining whether said sample has the ability to decrease the mitotic ratio and/or mitotic ratio (irradiated cells/unirradiated cells) in cells in response to radiation that induces the HRS phenotype in HRS proficient cells.