Introduction: Surveillance of HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) is crucial to ensuring the continued success of antiretroviral therapy (ART) programs. With the concern of reduced genotyping sensitivity of HIV on dried blood spots (DBS), DBS for HIVDR surveillance have been limited to ART-naïve populations. To investigate if DBS under certain conditions may also be a feasible sample type for HIVDR testing in ART patients, we piloted nationwide surveys for HIVDR among ART patients using DBS in two African countries with rapid scale-up of ART.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Viral load (VL) assessment is the preferred method for diagnosing and confirming virologic failure for patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART). We conducted a retrospective cross-sectional study to evaluate the virologic suppression rate among patients on ART for ≥6 months in five hospitals around Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Methods: Plasma VL was measured and patients with VL <1,000 copies/mL were defined as virologically suppressed.
Purpose: To explore whether miR-19 is involved in the regulation of multidrug resistance (MDR), one of the main causes of breast cancer mortality, and modulates sensitivity of tumor cells to chemotherapeutic agents.
Methods: We analyzed miRNA expression levels in three MDR cell lines in comparison with their parent cell line, MCF-7, using a miRNA microarray. We investigated whether inhibitor of miR-19 sensitized MDR cells to chemotherapeutic agents in vitro and in vivo.
Multidrug resistance-associated protein (MRP-1/ABCC1) transports a wide range of therapeutic agents and may play a critical role in the development of multidrug resistance (MDR) in tumor cells. However, the regulation of MRP-1 remains controversial. To explore whether miRNAs are involved in the regulation of MRP-1 expression and modulate the sensitivity of tumor cells to chemotherapeutic agents, we analyzed miRNA expression levels in VP-16-resistant MDR cell line, MCF-7/VP, in comparison with its parent cell line, MCF-7, using a miRNA microarray.
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