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Towards Light-Activated Ruthenium-Arene (RAPTA-Type) Prodrug Candidates

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Rational design of organic and organometallic thermoresponsive or tumor-selective anticancer drugs and their in vitro and in vivo biological evaluation

Conventional chemotherapy leads to severe side-effects such as nephrotoxicity, nausea and vomiting and fatigue along with drug resistance. Alkylating agents used to treat cancer were even shown to provoke second cancers, often years after the end of chemot ...

EPFL2014

Ligand substitutions between ruthenium-cymene compounds can control protein versus DNA targeting and anticancer activity

Paul Joseph Dyson, Ursula Röthlisberger, Wee Han Ang, Pablo Campomanes Ramos, Alexey Nazarov, Michael Groessl, Catherine Marie Amélie Clavel

Ruthenium compounds have become promising alternatives to platinum drugs by displaying specific activities against different cancers and favourable toxicity and clearance properties. Nonetheless, their molecular targeting and mechanism of action are poorly ...

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In vivo anti-tumor activity of the organometallic ruthenium(II)-arene complex [Ru(eta(6)-p-cymene)-Cl-2(pta)] (RAPTA-C) in human ovarian and colorectal carcinomas

Paul Joseph Dyson, Maxime Dubois, Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska

Based on the clinical success of platinum-based anti-cancer drugs such as cisplatin, carboplatin and oxaliplatin, a variety of other metal-based anti-cancer compounds are being investigated. In particular, a number of ruthenium-based compounds have been id ...

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American Chemical Society2013

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Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2012

Characterization of New Potential Anticancer Drugs Designed To Overcome Glutathione Transferase Mediated Resistance

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Resistance against anticancer drugs remains a serious obstacle in cancer treatment. Here we used novel strategies to target microsomal glutathione transferase 1 (MGST1) and glutathione transferase pi (GSTP) that are often overexpressed in tumors and confer ...

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