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目前癌症治疗领域中最常见、最突出的是直接或间接的DNA损伤药物。直观的DNA不应该是相对非特异性小分子药物的一个完美目标。然而,目前的认识不是损伤细胞本身而是抗肿瘤药物对细胞DNA损伤的杀伤作用,与正常细胞相比,它们对癌细胞有特异性靶向作用。DNA损伤的化疗药物包括不同活性的化合物,即:直接或间接诱导DNA断裂,共价修饰DNA碱基,通过抑制染色质修饰酶改变染色质的结构和拓扑结构。本期题为《现代药物化学》……
Current Medicinal Chemistry
Title:Editorial: DNA Damage as a Strategy for Anticancer Chemotherapy
Volume: 24 Issue: 15
摘要: Amongst all currently used drugs in the field of cancer therapy, the most prominent group of agents which induce DNA, damage both directly or indirectly. Intuitively DNA should not be a perfect target for relatively unspecific small molecular weight drugs. However, the current understanding is that not damage per se but cellular response to DNA damage induced by antitumor agents is responsible for their specific targeted effect towards cancer cells in comparison to the normal cells. DNA damaging chemotherapeutics include compounds with diferent activities namely: directly or indirectly induce DNA strand breaks, covalently modify DNA bases, change the chromatin structure and topology by inhibiting chromatin-modifying enzymes. In this special issue of Current Medicinal Chemistry entitled....
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Editorial: DNA Damage as a Strategy for Anticancer Chemotherapy, Current Medicinal Chemistry 2017; 24 (15) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/092986732415170630115722
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/092986732415170630115722 |
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Publisher Name Bentham Science Publisher |
Online ISSN 1875-533X |
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