Taxol is arguably the most celebrated talked-about and controversial natural product in recent years. It is celebrated because of its efficacy as an anti-cancer drug and because its discovery has provided powerful support for policies concerned with biodiversity talke... Lees meer.

New Strategies Targeting Cancer Metabolism. Anticancer Drugs Synthetic Analogues and Antitumor Agents presents up-to-date synthetic strategies for three categories of antimetabolites. antifolates purines and pyrimidines the main classes of antimetabolites which ar... Lees meer.

Medicinal Chemistry of Anticancer Drugs Second Edition provides an updated treatment from the point of view of medicinal chemistry and drug design focusing on the mechanism of action of antitumor drugs from the molecular level and on the relationship between chemica... Lees meer.

Here in a single source is a complete spectrum of ideas on the development of new anticancer drugs. Containing concise reviews of multidisciplinary fields of research this book offers a wealth of ideas on current and future molecular targets for drug design including... Lees meer.

The book provides current knowledge and research on the presence and effects of anticancer drug residues in the aqueous environment and covers all relevant aspects of the presence of these residues in wastewaters and natural aquatic systems where numerous analogies bet... Lees meer.

Oral delivery of chemotherapeutic agents still remains a challenging area as most of the chemotherapeutic agents are either not bioavailable or have very low bioavailabilty due to their poor solubility stability and permeability. It has been found that the orally admin... Lees meer.

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In this timely and up-to-date book the latest knowledge on neurological syndromes due to neurotoxicity of antineoplastic drugs is presented. The initial chapters discuss the following vital topics. - the importance of blood-brain barrier changes in cancer patients -... Lees meer.

Since the earliest widely used in vivo drug screening models were the murine L 1210 and P388 leukemias the community came to assume that these murine tumor models were appropriate to the discovery of antileukemia agents but that other tumor models would be needed to... Lees meer.

An integrated presentation of the basic science and clinical applications of anticancer agents Aimed at both undergraduate and postgraduate readers this unique text provides readers with a fully-integrated presentation of all aspects of the science of anticancer drugs... Lees meer.

Cancer Pharmacology. An Illustrated Manual of Anticancer Drugs provides a one-stop guide to the essential basic and clinical science of all the effective life-prolonging drug therapies in oncology. From traditional cytotoxic agents to targeted genomic epigenomic ho... Lees meer.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s taxol was hailed for its efficacy as an anticancer drug while becoming embroiled in a number of political issues with wide policy implications. This book tells the story of this product. Taxol is arguably the most celebrated ta... Lees meer.

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Frontiers in Anti-Cancer Drug Discovery is a book series devoted to publishing the latest advances in anti-cancer drug design and discovery. In each volume eminent scientists contribute reviews relevant to all areas of rational drug design and drug discovery including... Lees meer.

Cancer Pharmacology. An Illustrated Manual of Anticancer Drugs Second Edition is a visually engaging reference detailing the essential basic and clinical science of all approved effective and life-prolonging drug therapies in oncology. Now with a greater emphasis o... Lees meer.