PGP and breast carcinoma: Two methods (flow cytometry and microplate reader) have been optimized to measure the effect of a competitive (VRP) and a noncompetitive (PSC833) P-gp inhibitor on the calcein accumulation in two parental breast cancer cells lines, and their resistant variants MCF-7/Doxo (Figure 1(a)) and Hs578T/Doxo (Figure 1(b)).