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. 2015 Aug 21;10(8):e0136080. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0136080

Table 1. IC50 and relative resistance (RR) values measured in response to etoposide, cisplatin and doxorubicin treatment of Caco-2 cells stably expressing non-target shRNA (shNT) or shMRP2.

shNT shMRP2
IC50 (μM) IC50 (μM) RR
Etoposide 328.2 108.5 0.33
Cisplatin 87.8 31.8 0.36
Doxorubicin 32.8 13.1 0.40

Caco-2 cells stably expressing shNT or shMRP2 (#305) were incubated with the cytotoxic drugs for 84 h. Sensitivity to the anti-cancer drug was determined by the MTT cell viability assay. Dose-response curves were fitted to the data to determine the toxicity (IC50 value) of the drugs. Inhibition of human shMRP2 expression reduced the resistance of Caco-2 cells to etoposide, cisplatin and doxorubicin compared to control cells.