Antitumor Molecular Target Inhibitors

Many past antitumor agents have predominately operated as non-specific cytotoxic tubulin inhibitors that, while successful have suffered from numerous drawbacks stemming from this non-specificity.¹⁾ Modern antitumor agents such as imatinib [I0906]²⁾ and regorafenib [R0142]³⁾ sought to improve upon these limitations by functioning as targeted kinase inhibitors and have improved side effect profiles and pose less hazards than tubulin inhibitors. Thalidomide [T2524] and pomalidomide [P2074]⁴⁾ have recently been shown to posess antitumor activities through its vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) inhibition. TCI provides high quality pharmaceutical reagents for investigate research and biomedical applications.

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