Glutathione S-transferase (GST) represents a multifunctional enzyme family consisting of four known cytosolic isoforms (alpha, mu, pi, and Phi) that detoxify a variety of xenobiotic chemicals and may confer resistance to both chemotherapeutic drugs and carcinogens in various experimental models.
Reduced glutathione (GSH) has been demonstrated in benign and malignant human breast lesions using a newly developed histofluorescence technique. GSH was present in every lesion and in each case was localised to the epithelium. A semi-quantitative assessment revealed a moderate amount of GSH in
GST-pi has been known to be markedly increased in human (pre) neoplasms of several organs. In this paper, the significance of immunohistochemical detection of GST-pi in human malignant tumors of the skin was studied. In specimens from 40 patients with various skin cancers, malignant melanoma,
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