Peripheral opioid antagonist enhances the effect of anti-tumor drug by blocking a cell growth-suppressive pathway in vivo.

Peripheral opioid antagonist enhances the effect of anti-tumor drug by blocking a cell growth-suppressive pathway in vivo.

The dormancy of tumor cells is a major problem in chemotherapy, since it limits the therapeutic efficacy of anti-tumor drugs that only target dividing cells. One potential way to overcome chemo-resistance is to "wake up" these dormant cells. Here we show that the opioid antagonist methylna...

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Main Authors: Masami Suzuki, Fumiko Chiwaki, Yumi Sawada, Maho Ashikawa, Kazuhiko Aoyagi, Takeshi Fujita, Kazuyoshi Yanagihara, Masayuki Komatsu, Minoru Narita, Tsutomu Suzuki, Hiroshi Nagase, Ryoji Kushima, Hiromi Sakamoto, Takeo Fukagawa, Hitoshi Katai, Hitoshi Nakagama, Teruhiko Yoshida, Yasuhito Uezono, Hiroki Sasaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4390307?pdf=render

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