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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 1995
Filed:
Jul. 20, 1993
Yehuda G Assaraf, Nesher, IL;
Uriel Bachrach, Jerusalem, IL;
Technicon Reseach & Development Foundation Ltd., Technicon City, IL;
Abstract
The invention relates to a method for assessing clinical activity and resistance to multiple anticancer drugs of mammalian cells, based on a dose-dependent inhibition with cytotoxic agents of the cellular rise in ornithine decarboxylase activity, following serum stimulation, which comprises the steps of: (a) determining by an immunological technique the rise in the ornithine decarboxylase protein levels, after adding serum containing medium to quiescent mammalian cells, and (b) obtaining the levels of the anticancer drug resistance from the ratio of 50% inhibitory concentration of ornithine decarboxylase obtained with an anticancer drug for drug resistant cells and drug sensitive cells. The immunological technique is selected from ELISA, radioimmunoassay, immunofluorescence, flow cytometry and fluorescence microscopy. The increase in the ornithine decarboxylase activity results from an increase in the number of ornithine decarboxylase molecules.