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The Emerging Role of Poly(ADP-Ribose) Polymerase Inhibitors in Cancer Treatment
1 Dec 2011
Abstract excerpt
Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) is a critical DNA repair enzyme involved in DNA single-strand break repair via the base excision repair pathway. PARP inhibitors have been shown to sensitize tumors to DNA-damaging agents and to also selectively kill homologous recombination repair-defective cancers, such as those arising in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers. Recent proof-of-concept clinical studies have...
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