Abstract
The efficacy of classical and molecular therapies in cancer is hampered by the occurrence of primary (intrinsic) and secondary (acquired) refractoriness of tumours to selected therapeutic regimens. Nevertheless, the increased knowledge of the genetic, molecular and metabolic mechanisms underlying cancer results in the generation of a correspondingly increasing number of druggable targets and molecular drugs. Thus, a current challenge in molecular oncology and medicinal chemistry is to cope with the increased need for modelling, both in cellular and animal systems, the genetic assets associated to cancer resistance to drugs. In this review, we summarize the current strategies for generation and analysis of in vitro and in vivo models, which may reveal useful to extract information on the molecular basis of intrinsic and acquired resistance to anticancer molecular agents.
Keywords: Anticancer molecular therapies, tumour, molecular modelling.
Current Medicinal Chemistry
Title:In Vitro and In Vivo Models for Analysis of Resistance to Anticancer Molecular Therapies
Volume: 21 Issue: 14
Author(s): Roberta Rosa, Francesca Monteleone, Nicola Zambrano and Roberto Bianco
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Keywords: Anticancer molecular therapies, tumour, molecular modelling.
Abstract: The efficacy of classical and molecular therapies in cancer is hampered by the occurrence of primary (intrinsic) and secondary (acquired) refractoriness of tumours to selected therapeutic regimens. Nevertheless, the increased knowledge of the genetic, molecular and metabolic mechanisms underlying cancer results in the generation of a correspondingly increasing number of druggable targets and molecular drugs. Thus, a current challenge in molecular oncology and medicinal chemistry is to cope with the increased need for modelling, both in cellular and animal systems, the genetic assets associated to cancer resistance to drugs. In this review, we summarize the current strategies for generation and analysis of in vitro and in vivo models, which may reveal useful to extract information on the molecular basis of intrinsic and acquired resistance to anticancer molecular agents.
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Rosa Roberta, Monteleone Francesca, Zambrano Nicola and Bianco Roberto, In Vitro and In Vivo Models for Analysis of Resistance to Anticancer Molecular Therapies, Current Medicinal Chemistry 2014; 21 (14) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/09298673113209990226
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/09298673113209990226 |
Print ISSN 0929-8673 |
Publisher Name Bentham Science Publisher |
Online ISSN 1875-533X |
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