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Advances in PARP inhibitors for the treatment of breast cancer.
Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy - 1 Jan 2015
Dizdar Omer, Arslan Cagatay, Altundag Kadri
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INTRODUCTION: Poly(ADP-Ribose) polymerases (PARPs) are one of the important components of base excision repair pathway for single strand DNA breaks. Currently accepted hypothesis for the mechanism of action for PARP inhibitors in tumors with homologous recombination deficiency is synthetic lethality, as the simultaneous blockage of both pathways prevents the tumor cells from repairing DNA damage. Other proposed...
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