Ozgon Gulay Oner, Bebek Nerses, Gul Gunay, Cine Naci
Department of Genetics, Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Eur Neurol. 2008;59(1-2):67-70. doi: 10.1159/000109264. Epub 2007 Oct 4.
We investigated the prevalence of this multidrug resistance 1 gene (MDR1) polymorphism in drug-responsive versus drug-resistant epilepsy patients treated with carbamazepine (CBZ), which is a substrate of this protein.
We genotyped the C3435T variant of MDR1 in 97 patients treated with CBZ monotherapy who had been on stable doses for more than 1 month. Our control group included 174 healthy individuals. Plasma CBZ concentrations were also measured using fluorescence polarization immunoassay.
We could not demonstrate any statistically significant relationship with the genotypes among drug-resistant patients (n = 44). The frequency of the homozygous mutant (TT) genotype was 15% in drug-responsive patients, 11.3% in drug-resistant patients and 25.8% in the control group. We also did not observe any significant correlation between the presence of a specific allele and CBZ plasma level/dose index.
Our study did not support any significant association between the MDR1 (C3435T) polymorphism and resistance to CBZ in epilepsy patients from Turkey.
我们研究了多药耐药1基因(MDR1)多态性在接受卡马西平(CBZ,该蛋白的一种底物)治疗的药物反应性癫痫患者与耐药性癫痫患者中的流行情况。
我们对97例接受CBZ单药治疗且已服用稳定剂量超过1个月的患者的MDR1基因C3435T变体进行了基因分型。我们的对照组包括174名健康个体。还使用荧光偏振免疫分析法测量了血浆CBZ浓度。
我们未能证明耐药患者(n = 44)的基因型之间存在任何统计学上的显著关系。纯合突变(TT)基因型在药物反应性患者中的频率为15%,在耐药性患者中为11.3%,在对照组中为25.8%。我们也未观察到特定等位基因的存在与CBZ血浆水平/剂量指数之间存在任何显著相关性。
我们的研究不支持土耳其癫痫患者中MDR1(C3435T)多态性与对CBZ耐药之间存在任何显著关联。