Published in Lab Business Week, May 1st, 2005
"Breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP) is a recently identified ATP-binding cassette transporter, important in drug disposition and in the development of multidrug resistance in cancer. Flavonoids, a major class of natural compounds widely present in foods and herbal products, have been shown to be human BCRP inhibitors," explained S.Z. Zhang and colleagues, State University of New York, Buffalo.
In their study, Zhang's team assessed "the potential for in vivo pharmacokinetic interactions by comparing the pharmacokinetics of...
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Source: Lab Business Week (2005-05-01)
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