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Valspodar

Term · Oncology and biomedicine · MLC-T-ONC-017453

An analogue of cyclosporin-A. Valspodar inhibits p-glycoprotein, the multidrug resistance efflux pump, thereby restoring the retention and activity of some drugs in some drug-resistant tumor cells. This agent also induces caspase-mediated apoptosis.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ONC-017453
FieldOncology and biomedicine
ReferencesNational Cancer Institute Thesaurus (CC BY 4.0)
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-ONC-017453",
  "term": "Valspodar",
  "field": "Oncology and biomedicine",
  "definition": "An analogue of cyclosporin-A. Valspodar inhibits p-glycoprotein, the multidrug resistance efflux pump, thereby restoring the retention and activity of some drugs in some drug-resistant tumor cells. This agent also induces caspase-mediated apoptosis.",
  "references": [
    "National Cancer Institute Thesaurus"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oncology/valspodar/"
}

Record 17,096 of 17,717 in Oncology and biomedicine terminology (MLC-0111). Request the full dataset.