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• crizotinib
  10 June 2010

  Pfizer drug crizotinibPF-02341066 or 1066, PF-02341066, Xalkori Wikipedia
  Molecular target: ALK
  Definition: Crizotinib is an ALK inhibitor , ROS1 inhibitor and MET inhibitor .
  Crizotinib is undergoing clinical trials testing its safety and efficacy in anaplastic large cell lymphoma, neuroblastoma, advanced non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC ).
  Crizotinib is an oral ALK (anaplastic lymphoma kinase) inhibitor under study in patients with advanced NSCLC carrying the echinoderm (...)

• protein kinase inhibitors
  29 August 2005

  protein-kinase inhibitor ; PKIs WKPD
  Definition: A protein kinase inhibitor is a type of enzyme inhibitor that blocks the action of one or more protein kinases. Protein kinases are enzymes that add a phosphate (PO4) group to a protein, and can modulate its function.
  Protein-kinase inhibitors are generally small molecules that show competitive inhibition with respect to ATP.
  Examples
  tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs )
  References
  Bogoyevitch MA. Therapeutic promise of JNK (...)

• alkylating agents
  12 March 2006

  alkylators

• cisplatin
  12 March 2006

  Cisplatin, a platinating agent commonly used to treat several cancers, is associated with nephrotoxicity, neurotoxicity, and ototoxicity, which has hindered its utility.
  Cisplatin is similar to the bifunctional alkylating agents. It covalently binds to DNA and disrupts DNA function. After cisplatin enters the cells, the chloride ligands are replaced by water molecules. This reaction results in the formation of positively charged platinum complexes that react with the nucleophilic sites on (...)

• methotrexate
  28 November 2005

  MTX

• bisphosphonate
  6 September 2005

  References
  Rodan GA, Reszka AA. Bisphosphonate mechanism of action. Curr Mol Med. 2002 Sep;2(6):571-7. PMID: #12243249#

• zidovudine
  27 January 2005

  Nucleoside analogues can cause a mitochondrial myopathy with RRFs in muscle are nucleoside analogues, such as zidovudine, used in the treatment of certain human immunodeficiencies.
  Nucleoside analogues, after conversion into their active form, inhibit mitochondrial DNA polymerase-gamma and induce mtDNA depletion.
  See also
  nucleoside analogues
  mitochondrial diseases
  oxydative phosphorylation (OXPHOS (...)

• taxanes
  5 January 2006

  Definition : Taxanes are a class of diterpenes.
  Taxanes were originally identified from plants of the genus Taxus (yews), and feature a taxadiene core.
  Molecules as paclitaxel (Taxol) and docetaxel (Taxotere) are widely used as chemotherapy agents. cabazitaxel was FDA approved to treat hormone-refractory prostate cancer.
  Taxanes are important drugs in the treatment of ovarian and other cancers, but their efficacy is limited by intrinsic and acquired drug resistance.
  Resistance (...)

• 5-FU
  12 March 2004

  5-fluoro-2’-deoxyuridine, 5-fluorouracil, fluorouracil

• disulfiram
  20 October 2003

  Microscopical synopsis
  pseudo-Lafora bodies in liver (#6307616#)

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