申请人:OXI-GENE, INC.
公开号:EP0601238A1
公开(公告)日:1994-06-15
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.
研究发现,通过确定或测量一个人的谷胱甘肽转移酶(GST)μ活性,可以确定或测量该人对药物,尤其是化疗药物的耐药性。人类中约有 50%的人基本上没有谷胱甘肽转移酶μ活性,其余 50%的人则显示出谷胱甘肽转移酶μ活性。由于 GST mu 有使药物失活的趋势,因此当使用药物(如用于癌症治疗的化疗药物)治疗时,这剩下的 50%的人群对药物治疗的有效反应要低于其他 50%的人群,因为其他 50%的人群基本上没有 GST mu 活性。因此,具有 GST mu 活性的人会表现出耐药性,不会像没有 GST mu 活性的人那样从癌症化疗中获益,也不会像没有 GST mu 活性的人那样适合接受癌症化疗。