New Potent Anti-Cancer drug found
Source: Science Daily
This is a really good article I just read in Science Daily. Here you go...
Researchers have found out a new anti cancer drug which they say acts in a way different from the other drugs. And they also state that the drug is so potent that "a few parts" of it is enough for inducing its activities. They have also cited a very good example for "A few Parts". Its like adding a packet of sugar to a coffee cup the size of 400 Olympic swimming pools.
This new drug called Meayamycin has structural similarities with another naturally occurring anti tumour agent FR901464. FR901464 has been found to induce the G1 and G2/M phase arrest and thereby acting as a transcriptional repressor. It exerts its anti-tumour activity by some unknown means.
Researchers hope that the newly found drug would also exert similar kind of effect on the cancer cells. This research has been done by Kazunori Koide and his colleagues.
References: Masato Horigome, Hajime Motoyoshi, Hidenori Watanabe and Takeshi Kitahara, Tetrahedron Letters, Volume 42, Number 26, 12 November 2001, pp. 8207-8210(4)
This is a really good article I just read in Science Daily. Here you go...
Researchers have found out a new anti cancer drug which they say acts in a way different from the other drugs. And they also state that the drug is so potent that "a few parts" of it is enough for inducing its activities. They have also cited a very good example for "A few Parts". Its like adding a packet of sugar to a coffee cup the size of 400 Olympic swimming pools.
This new drug called Meayamycin has structural similarities with another naturally occurring anti tumour agent FR901464. FR901464 has been found to induce the G1 and G2/M phase arrest and thereby acting as a transcriptional repressor. It exerts its anti-tumour activity by some unknown means.
Researchers hope that the newly found drug would also exert similar kind of effect on the cancer cells. This research has been done by Kazunori Koide and his colleagues.
References: Masato Horigome, Hajime Motoyoshi, Hidenori Watanabe and Takeshi Kitahara, Tetrahedron Letters, Volume 42, Number 26, 12 November 2001, pp. 8207-8210(4)
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