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PARP inhibitors: A new era of targeted therapy.
Maturitas - 1 May 2015
Tangutoori Shifalika, Baldwin Paige, Sridhar Srinivas
Abstract excerpt
Personalized medicine seeks to utilize targeted therapies with increased selectivity and efficacy in preselected patient cohorts. One such molecularly targeted therapy is enabled by inhibiting the enzyme poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) by small molecule inhibitors in tumors which have a defect in the homologous DNA recombination pathway, most characteristically due to BRCA mutations. Olaparib, a highly potent...
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