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[Origin of resistance to Imatinib mesylate: lessons learned from this experience].
Medecine sciences : M/S - 1 Dec 2004
Roche-Lestienne Catherine, Mahon François-Xavier, Preudhomme Claude
Abstract excerpt
For drug development and pharmaceutical research, targeting the molecular abnormalities is considered as a new challenge. A number of diseases including cancer are linked to perturbation of tyrosine kinase (TK). Imatinib (Glivec or Gleevec, Novartis), the most potent inhibitor of c-abl TK, was recently developed. This molecule has been approved in the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). However,...
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