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Nature Medicine  3, 378 - 380 (1997)
doi:10.1038/nm0497-378

Multidrug resistance — a multiplex phenomenon

Nicola Baldini

Laboratorio di Ricerca Oncologica Istituti Ortopedici Rizzoli 40136 Bologna, Italy

Evidence suggests that expression of the MDR1 gene in human tumors is associated with malignancy in a tissue-dependent fashion (pages 447−450).

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