Charles University Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology Student: Anna Giannitsi Supervisor: RNDr. Jakub Hofman, Ph.D Title of diploma thesis: The role of biotransformation enzymes in the resistance of cancer cells against standard cytostatics Drug resistance is currently one of the major problems of chemotherapy. Tumor cells are able to defend themselves against the effect of cytostatic drugs due to various mechanisms which leads to a failure of anticancer therapy. The effort to describe new mechanisms of resistance and to develop new therapeutic methods, which would limit this therapeutic obstacle, is logically the subject of many studies. The activity of drug metabolizing enzymes and the subsequent decrease of intercellular concentration of anticancer drugs belongs to one of the possible mechanisms of pharmacokinetic resistance. Enzymes of I. and II. phase of biotransformation participate in this phenomenon. Cytochromes P450, main enzymes of the I. phase, play a major role in the metabolism of many cytostatic agents producing either pharmacologically active or inactive metabolites. Increased expression in tumors and the involvement of individual isoforms into the overall metabolism of cytostatic, which is deactivated by their activity, seems to be one of the...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:382793 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | Giannitsi, Anna |
| Contributors | Hofman, Jakub, Čečková, Martina |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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