Cancer drug resistance : overviews and methods

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cancer drug resistance : a brief overview from a genetic viewpoint / Jose Rueff and António Sebastião Rodrigues -- Classical and targeted anticancer drugs : an appraisal of mechanisms of multidrug resistance / Bruce C. Baguley -- In vitro methods for studying the mechanisms of resistance to DNA-damaging therapeutic drugs / Pasarat Khongkow ... [et al.] -- In vitro approaches to study regulation of hepatic cytochrome P450 (CYP) 3A expression by paclitaxel and rifampicin / Romi Ghose ... [et al.] -- Uptake and permeability studies to delineate the role of efflux transporters / Ramya Krishna Vadlapatla, Dhananjay Pal, and Ashim K. Mitra -- Dynamics of expression of drug transporters : methods for appraisal / Marta Gromicho, José Rueff, and António Sebastião Rodrigues -- Fluorimetric methods for analysis of permeability, drug transport kinetics, and inhibition of the ABCB1 membrane transporter / Ana Armada ... [et al.] -- Resistance to targeted therapies in breast cancer / Sofia Braga -- MicroRNAs and cancer drug resistance / Bruno Costa Gomes, José Rueff, and António Sebastião Rodrigues -- Role of MicroRNAs in resistance to current pancreatic cancer treatment : translational studies and basic protocols for extraction and PCR analysis / Ingrid Garajová .... [et al.] -- Methods for studying microRNA expression and their targets in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) breast cancer tissues / Bruno Costa Gomes ... [et al.] -- Regulatory role of long noncoding RNAs in cancer drug resistance / Marjan E. Askarian-Amiri ... [et al.] -- Cancer exosomes as mediators of drug resistance / Maria do Rosário André, Ana Pedro, and David Lyden -- Isolation and characterization of cancer stem cells from primary head and neck squamous cell carcinoma tumors / Hong S. Kim, Alexander T. Pearson, and Jacques E. Nör -- Clinical and molecular methods in drug development : neoadjuvant systemic therapy in breast cancer as a model / Sofia Braga -- Proteomics in the assessment of the therapeutic response of antineoplastic drugs : strategies and practical applications / Vukosava Milic Torres ... [et al.] -- Managing drug resistance in cancer : role of cancer informatics / Ankur Gautam ... [et al.].