| View Larger Image | Camptothecins New Anticancer Agents | Hardcoverby Milan Potmesil (Author), Herbert M. Pinedo (Author)
| List Price: | $219.95 | |
| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | CRC | | Edition: | 1st Edition | | Page Count: | 158 Pages | | Publication Date: | December 19, 1994 | | Sales Rank: | 6,126,418th |
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This exciting new book presents the first comprehensive overview of clinical trials of camptothecins, a new class of anticancer agents. Camptothecins are synthetic and semisynthetic derivatives of a plant alkaloid that inhibit a cellular enzyme and trigger a cascade of events leading to programmed cell death. Special attention is given to the adverse effects of camptothecin treatment, as well as to prevention and control. The book boasts contributions by some of the most respected authorities in camptothecin research, who haveoConducted much of the pre-clinical work which helped to renew interest in camptothecinsoDiscovered and identified the natural product camptothecin and synthesized most of the anloguesoDiscovered the mechanism of camptothecin cytotoxicity |
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