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Multi-drug resistance (MDR)

A phenomenon in which resistance that develops to one drug is manifested as resistance to many others, even those with very different structures; seen especially in chemotherapy. MDR is due to traffic ATPase transporters of very low specificity that extrude drugs or sequester them in vesicles.

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