Abstract

Drug resistance is the greatest obstacle to sucessful treatment of human lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer death among men and women in the United States. Cyclosporin A has been used in preclinical and a few early clinical studies to overcome multi-drug resistance. We have shown that sensitivity to paclitaxel in non-resistant cell lines can be enhanced by CsA despite lack of expression of classical drug resistance pumps. We are using CATS and immuno-fluorescence staining to visualize microtubule assembly in cells incubated with paclitaxel and CsA. Microtubule assembly dynamics will be explored using fluorescence spectroscopy.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)
Type
Biotechnology Resource Grants (P41)
Project #
5P41RR001192-17
Application #
5222601
Study Section
Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
Budget End
Support Year
17
Fiscal Year
1996
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Publications

Paugh, Jerry R; Alfonso-Garcia, Alba; Nguyen, Andrew Loc et al. (2018) Characterization of expressed human meibum using hyperspectral stimulated Raman scattering microscopy. Ocul Surf :
Verdel, Nina; Lentsch, Griffin; Balu, Mihaela et al. (2018) Noninvasive assessment of skin structure by combined photothermal radiometry and optical spectroscopy: coregistration with multiphoton microscopy. Appl Opt 57:D117-D122
Friedman, Jacob E; Dobrinskikh, Evgenia; Alfonso-Garcia, Alba et al. (2018) Pyrroloquinoline quinone prevents developmental programming of microbial dysbiosis and macrophage polarization to attenuate liver fibrosis in offspring of obese mice. Hepatol Commun 2:313-328
Kennedy, Gordon T; Lentsch, Griffin R; Trieu, Brandon et al. (2017) Solid tissue simulating phantoms having absorption at 970 nm for diffuse optics. J Biomed Opt 22:76013
Takesh, Thair; Sargsyan, Anik; Lee, Matthew et al. (2017) Evaluating the Whitening and Microstructural Effects of a Novel Whitening Strip on Porcelain and Composite Dental Materials. Dentistry (Sunnyvale) 7:
Jonscher, Karen R; Stewart, Michael S; Alfonso-Garcia, Alba et al. (2017) Early PQQ supplementation has persistent long-term protective effects on developmental programming of hepatic lipotoxicity and inflammation in obese mice. FASEB J 31:1434-1448
Alfonso-García, Alba; Paugh, Jerry; Farid, Marjan et al. (2017) A machine learning framework to analyze hyperspectral stimulated Raman scattering microscopy images of expressed human meibum. J Raman Spectrosc 48:803-812
Takesh, Thair; Sargsyan, Anik; Anbarani, Afarin et al. (2017) Effects of a Novel Whitening Formulation on Dental Enamel. Dentistry (Sunnyvale) 7:
Alfonso-García, Alba; Smith, Tim D; Datta, Rupsa et al. (2016) Label-free identification of macrophage phenotype by fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy. J Biomed Opt 21:46005
Prince, Richard C; Frontiera, Renee R; Potma, Eric O (2016) Stimulated Raman Scattering: From Bulk to Nano. Chem Rev :

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