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1 Cancer Drug Resistance: A Brief Overview from a Genetic Viewpoint
1 Innate or Intrinsic and Acquired Resistance: Definitions and Mechanisms
2.1 Intrinsic Resistance, Clinical Expertise, and Clinical Guidelines
2.2 Intrinsic Resistance and Pharmacogenetic Patterns
3.1 Acquired Resistance and Tumor Microưheterogeneity
3.2 Acquired Resistance and Adaptive Compensatory Pathways
4 Uptake and Efflux of Drugs Mediated by Transporters: Role in Resistance
5 DNA Repair and Cancer Drug Resistance
6 Epigenomics and Resistance: The Role of Methylation, Acetylation, and microRNAs
7 Tumor Microenvironment and Resistance
2 Classical and Targeted Anticancer Drugs: An Appraisal of Mechanisms of Multidrug Resistance
2 Resistance Involving Altered Drug Pharmacokinetics
3 Intrinsic Multidrug Resistance Mechanisms
3.1 Resistance Mediated by P-gp
3.2 Resistance Mediated by Other Transporters
3.3 Pharmacokinetic Consequences of Expression of ABC Transporters
3.4 Use of Inhibitors of ABC Transporters in Combination Chemotherapy
3.5 Multidrug Resistance Mechanisms not Mediated by ABC Transporters
4 Resistance Involving Altered Tumor Cytokinetics
4.1 Resistance Arising from an Increased Rate of Tumor Cell Proliferation
4.2 Resistance to Apoptosis
4.3 Resistance Because of Loss of Host Immunity Mechanisms
4.4 Tumor Tissue Heterogeneity and Resistance
5 General Protocols for Studying Resistance to Multiple Anticancer Drugs
5.1 Assessment of TransportưMediated Multidrug Resistance
5.2 Assessment of Drug Resistance of Cultured Tumor Cells
5.3 Transplanted Tumors in Animals
5.4 Contribution of Host Immune Mechanisms in Individual Human Tumors
3 In Vitro Methods for Studying the Mechanisms of Resistance to DNA-Damaging Therapeutic Drugs
2.1 Chemicals, Buffers, and Equipment to Be Used in Comet Assay
2.2 Chemicals, Buffers, and Equipment to Be Used in γ-H2AX Immunofluorescent Staining
2.3 Chemicals, Buffers, and Equipment to Be Used for Clonogenic Assay
2.4 Chemicals, Buffers, and Equipment to Be Used in β-Galactosidase Staining
2.5 Chemicals, Buffers to Be Used in Cell Cultures
3.1 Measurement of Drug-Induced DNA Breaks Using Comet Assay
3.1.1 Preparation of Cell Cultures and DNAưDamaging Treatment
3.2 Measuring DNA Damage Using γ-H2AX Immunofluorescent Staining
3.2.1 Preparation of Cell Cultures and DNAưDamaging Treatment
3.2.2 Fixation, Permeabilization, and Blocking
3.2.4 Counterstaining and Mounting
3.2.5 Imaging and Image Analysis
3.3 Clonogenic Cell Survival Assay
3.3.2 Treatment with DNAưDamaging Agents
3.3.3 Fixation and Staining
3.3.4 Colony Counting and Assay Analysis
3.4 SenescenceưAssociated β-Galactosidase Staining
3.4.1 Cell Culture and DNA-Damaging Treatment
3.4.2 Fixation and SA-βưGalactosidase Staining of Cultured Cells
4 In Vitro Approaches to Study Regulation of Hepatic Cytochrome P450 (CYP) 3A Expression by Paclitaxel and Rifampicin
2.1 Primary Mouse Hepatocyte Isolation and Treatment
2.2 Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction Analysis
2.3 HepG2 Cell Transfection and Treatment
3.1 Isolation of Primary Mouse Hepatocytes
3.2 Hepatocyte Culture and Treatment
3.3 Assessment of Induction of Cyp3a11 by Paclitaxel by Real-Time PCR Analysis
3.4 Transient Transfection of HepG2 Cells
3.5 HepG2 Culture and Treatment
3.6 Dual-Luciferase Reporter Assay Protocol
5 Uptake and Permeability Studies to Delineate the Role of Efflux Transporters
3.1 Cellular Drug Accumulation Study
6 Dynamics of Expression of Drug Transporters: Methods for Appraisal
2.2 RNA Isolation and cDNA Synthesis
2.3 Quantitative Real-Time PCR
3.1 Cell Lines: In Vitro Experimental System
3.4 RNA Isolation and cDNA Synthesis
3.5 Quantitative Real-Time PCR
7 Fluorimetric Methods for Analysis of Permeability, Drug Transport Kinetics, and Inhibition of the ABCB1 Membrane Transporter
1.1 P-Glycoprotein (P-gp)/ABCB1 Protein
1.2 Natural Compounds as Inhibitors of MDR Transporters
1.3 Monitoring ABCB1-Mediated Drug Transport of Fluorescent Compounds
3.1 Preparation of Cell Cultures
3.3 Assays to Monitor ABCB1-Mediated Drug Transport of Fluorescent Compounds
8 Resistance to Targeted Therapies in Breast Cancer
1.1 Estrogen Receptor Inhibition
1.1.1 Ligand Independent ER Activation
1.1.2 Ligand-Dependent/Genomic Action of ER
1.1.3 Overcoming ET Resistance
1.1.4 The Loss or Change of the Target
1.1.5 Deep Sequencing Studies
Neoadjuvant Breast Cancer
1.3 Targeted Therapies for Metastatic Breast Cancer
1.3.1 EGFR (Her1) Inhibition
Tyrosine Kinase inhibitors
1.3.2 Angiogenesis Inhibition
Neoadjuvant Breast Cancer
Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors
1.3.5 PI3K/AKT/mTOR Inhibition
1.3.6 RAS/RAF/MEK/ERK/MAPK Inhibition
1.3.8 Cell Cycle Inhibition via CDK4/6
1.3.9 Apoptosis Induction
9 MicroRNAs and Cancer Drug Resistance
2 MicroRNAs in Cancer Drug Resistance
2.4 Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition
2.5 Cancer Stem Cells and Drug Resistance
10 The Role of MicroRNAs in Resistance to Current Pancreatic Cancer Treatment: Translational Studies and Basic Protocols for Extraction and PCR Analysis
1.1 The Role of MicroRNA Role in Cancer
1.2 Current Pancreatic Cancer Treatment Regimens and the Role of miRNAs
1.3 Conventional Chemotherapy
1.3.1 Gemcitabine Monotherapy
1.3.2 Gemcitabine and Nab-Paclitaxel
1.3.3 FOLFIRINOX (5-FU, Leucovorin, Irinotecan, and Oxaliplatin)
1.4 Signal Transduction Targeted Therapy
1.4.1 Anti-EGFR Therapy in PDAC
1.5 Conclusions and Future Perspectives
1.6 Practical Protocol: The Use of miRNAs Analysis in Chemoresistance
2.1 MicroRNA Extraction from Serum
2.2 MicroRNA Extraction from FFPE Tissue
2.3 Reverse Transcription and Quantitative Real-Time PCR
2.4.1 MicroRNA Extraction from Serum
2.4.2 MicroRNA Extraction from FFPE Tissue
2.4.3 MicroRNA Extraction from Cells
2.4.4 MicroRNA Extraction from Fresh Tissue
2.4.5 Reverse Transcription and Quantitative Real-Time PCR
11 Methods for Studying MicroRNA Expression and Their Targets in Formalin-Fixed, Paraffin-Embedded (FFPE) Breast Cancer Tissues
2.2 Reverse Transcription and Quantitative Real-Time PCR
3.1.3 Nucleic Acid Isolation
3.2 Reverse Transcription and Quantitative Real-Time PCR
3.2.2 Real-Time qPCR (See Note 15)
12 The Regulatory Role of Long Noncoding RNAs in Cancer Drug Resistance
1.1 Mechanisms of Resistance to Cancer Drugs
1.2 Role of lncRNA in Drug Resistance
1.3 Involvement of Stem Cells
1.3.1 Urothelial Carcinoma-Associated 1 (UCA1; Also Known as CUDR)
1.3.2 Long Intergenic ncRNA Regulator of Reprogramming (linc-ROR)
1.3.3 X-Inactive-Specific Transcript (XIST)
1.4 Involvement of EMT/CSC
1.4.1 Metastasis-Associated Lung Adenocarcinoma Transcript 1 (MALAT-1)
1.5 Cell Cycle and Apoptosis
1.5.1 Up-Regulated in Hepatocellular Carcinoma (URHC)
1.5.2 HOX Transcript Antisense RNA (HOTAIR)
1.5.3 Prostate-Specific Transcript (Nonprotein Coding) PCGEM1
1.5.4 Growth Arrest-Specific 5 (GAS5)
1.5.6 E2F1-Regulated Inhibitor of Cell Death (ERIC)
1.5.7 P21-Associated ncRNA DNA Damage Activated (PANDA)
1.5.8 p53-Dependent Apoptosis Modulator (PDAM)
1.5.9 HOXA Transcript at the Distal Tip (HOTTIP)
1.6 Drug Transport and Metabolism
1.6.1 Vault Noncoding RNAs
1.7 Drug Resistance-Related Protein
1.7.1 MDR-Related and Up-Regulated lncRNA (MRUL)
1.7.2 Adriamycin Resistance Associated (ARA)
1.8 Secondary Mutation or Translocation
1.8.1 Plasmacytoma Variant Translocation 1 (PVT1)
1.9.1 Breast Cancer Anti-estrogen Resistance 4 (BCAR4)
13 Cancer Exosomes as Mediators of Drug Resistance
1.1 The Tumor Microưenvironment, the Pre-metastatic Niche, and the Role of Tumor Exosomes in Tumor Progression and Metastasis Development
1.2 The Tumor Microenvironment and Chemotherapy Response
3.1 Exosome Purification from Cell Culture
3.2 Exosome Isolation from Fresh Mouse and Human Plasma
3.3 Exosome Isolation for Retrospective Studies Using Frozen Human Plasma
3.4 Electron Microscope Analysis of Exosomes
3.5 Identification of ExosomeưSpecific Markers by Western Blot Analysis
3.6 Quantification of Exosome Size, Distribution, and Number by LM10 Nanoparticle Characterization System (NanoSight)
14 Isolation and Characterization of Cancer Stem Cells from Primary Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Tumors
2.2 Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting
3.1 Preparation for Digestion
3.3 Isolation of Cancer Stem Cells
15 Clinical and Molecular Methods in Drug Development: Neoadjuvant Systemic Therapy in Breast Cancer as a Model
2.2 Diagnostic Pathology Report
2.3 Conventional Radiology
2.6 Magnetic Resonance Imaging
2.7 Positron Emission Tomography
2.8 Multidisciplinary Team
2.12 Clinical Response Assessment
2.13 Radiological Response Assessment
2.14 PET Response Assessment
3.3 Conventional Radiology
3.12 Radiological Response Assessment
3.13 PET Response Assessment
3.14 Clinical Response Assessment
3.18 Immuno histochemistry
3.19 Adjuvant Systemic Therapy
16 Proteomics in the Assessment of the Therapeutic Response of Antineoplastic Drugs: Strategies and Practical Applications
1.1 Proteomics Strategies
1.1.1 Discovery Proteomics Approach
1.2 Gold Standards in Discovery Proteomics
1.3.1 Frequently Used Methods in Target-Based Proteomics
1.5 Which Proteome to Investigate?
1.6 Mass Spectrometry and Considerations When Starting Proteomics-Based Biomarker Study
1.7 Proteomics in Practice: Chemotherapeutic Response
17 Managing Drug Resistance in Cancer: Role of Cancer Informatics
1.1 Cancer Drug Resistance
1.2 Cancer Informatics and Management of Drug Resistance
1.6 Alignment/Mutation Module
1.6.4 Structure Alignment
1.7 Target Structure Module
1.8 Clusters/Groups Module
1.8.1 Clustering of Mutant Drug Target Sequences (Target Cluster)
1.8.2 Clustering of Cancer Cell Lines Assayed on Different Drugs (Cell Line Cluster)
1.8.3 Clustering of Anticancer Drugs for Different Cancer Cell Lines (Drug Cluster)
1.10 Limitations and Future Prospects
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