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Bleomycins: towards better therapeutics.
Nature reviews. Cancer - 1 Feb 2005
Chen Jingyang, Stubbe JoAnne
Abstract excerpt
Bleomycins are a family of glycopeptide antibiotics that have potent antitumour activity against a range of lymphomas, head and neck cancers and germ-cell tumours. The therapeutic efficacy of the bleomycins is limited by development of lung fibrosis. The cytotoxic and mutagenic effects of the bleomycins are thought to be related to their ability to mediate both single-stranded and double-stranded DNA damage,...
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