Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology – Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or... – Involving transferase
Patent
1990-10-22
1993-04-20
Rollins, John W.
Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or...
Involving transferase
435183, C12Q 148, C12N 900
Patent
active
052042413
ABSTRACT:
It has been discovered that by determining or measuring a person's glutathione-s-transferase (GST) mu activity one can determine or measure the individual's resistance to drugs, particularly to chemotherapeutic drugs. Approximately 50% of the human population exhibit substantially no GST mu activity, with the remaining 50% showing GST mu activity. This remaining 50% of the population accordingly, when treated with drugs, such as a chemotherapeutic drug for cancer therapy, show less effective response to the drug therapy than the other 50% of the population which have substantially no GST mu activity, since GST mu tends to deactivate drugs. Accordingly, a person having GST mu activity would exhibit drug resistance and would not benefit as much by or be as good a candidate for cancer chemotherapy as a person who has no GST mu activity.
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Gitomer Ralph
Oxi-Gene Inc.
Rollins John W.
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