Clinical study of multi-drug resistance gene (MDR1) expression in primary ovarian cancer

Abstract

This study was designed to measure the multi-drug resistance gene (MDR1) mRNA content and analyze clinical relationship between MDR1 expression and drug resistance in primary ovarian cancer. Reverse transcription PCR (RT-PCR) was used to measure MDR1 mRNA content in biopsy sample of 31 primary ovarian cancers (experimental group) and 30 gynecological tumors (control group). The level of 95.2% (20l21) MDR1 expression was relatively low, and the detected rate of MDR1 expression was 67.7% (21/31) in experimental group, which was higher than that in control group (40.0%,P<0. 05). The differences of MDR1 expression between the effective group and no effect group after combined chemotherapy was significant (P<0. 05). No significant relationship was found between MDR1 expression and clinical stage or histological classification or grade of differentiation in experimental group. We are led to concluded that primary ovarian cancers have drug-resistance clones which might express MDR1 spontaneously and expression of MDR1 may be used as a prognostic and predictive indicator for clinical response of ovarian cancers to combined chemotherapy.

Keywords

ovarian neoplasma / genes drug resistance / chemotherapy / PCR

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