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Antineoplastic agents

Antineoplastic is a class of medicine to restrain or kill tumor cells in the body. It plays an important role in comprehensive cancer treatment, particularly for disseminated tumor and leukemia that cannot be treated with surgery. Most current antineoplastics work by inhibiting DNA or RNA synthesis, or even damaging the structure of DNA. Antineoplastics can be divided into CCNSA (Cell cycle nonspecific drug) and CCSA (Cell Cycle Specific agents) according to their different effect on tumor cells in different stages of generation cycles. Both of them have a killing effect on bone marrow hematopoietic stem cells and other cells with a short growth cycle, as well as an inhibiting effect on the body's immune response. Antineoplastic has a wide variety of drugs, which can be divided into following categories: alkylating agents, such as cyclophosphamide, Glyciphosphoramide, thiotepa, etc.; antimetabolites, such as methotrexate, mercaptopurine, fluorouracil, hydroxyurea, etc.; antibiotics, such as dactinomycin, mitomycin C, bleomycin, etc.; hormones, such as prednisone, testosterone propionate, diethylstilbestrol, etc.; some botanical drugs, such as Vinblastine, camptothecin, colchicine, etc.; and other classes, such as procarbazine, propylene imine, Yishuangmalin, etc. With their enormous diversity and different mechanisms, antineoplastics must be carefully selected for clinical application.

Uses and characteristics of HEPES buffer

HEPES (4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazineethanesulfonic acid) is a zwitterionic sulfonic acid buffering agent; one of the twenty Good's buffers.

Apr 13,2022  Antineoplastic agents

Hexylresorcinol: Providing Skin Benefits by Modulating Multiple Molecular Targets

Hexylresorcinol (HR) is an alkylresorcinol (AR), a type of phenolic lipid, having an n-hexyl chain attached to the 4 position of the 1,3-dihydroxybenzene ring. It can be synthesized by reacting resorc

Mar 3,2022  Antineoplastic agents

What is Dasatinib?

Dasatinib Anhydrous is an orally bioavailable synthetic small molecule-inhibitor of SRC-family protein-tyrosine kinases. Dasatinib binds to and inhibits the growth-promoting activities of these kinase

Aug 27,2021  Antineoplastic agents

What is Tetracaine Hydrochloride used for?

Tetracaine hydrochloride is also known as ropivacaine hydrochloride, pantocaine, pantocaine and four ropivacaine hydrochloride. It is easily soluble in water and ethanol, but insoluble in ether, benze

Sep 28,2020  Antineoplastic agents

What is Procaine hydrochloride?

Procaine hydrochloride is used as the sole local anesthetic agent for pain control in dentistry, as it was from its introduction in 1904 until the introduction of the amide local anesthetic lidocain

Sep 27,2020  Antineoplastic agents

Benzocaine-----Uses as a Local anaesthetic

Benzocaine is one of the more common and widely used topical anesthetics. It is available in gel, cream, ointment, lozenge, liquid solution, spray, and patch.

Sep 25,2020  Antineoplastic agents

What is Bupivacaine?

Bupivacaine is the most potent and toxic of all amide anesthetics. It is four times more potent than lidocaine, mepivacaine, and prilocaine, and three times more potent than articaine. It is four time

Sep 24,2020  Antineoplastic agents

Potency and Metabolism of Prilocaine as a local anesthetics

Prilocaine is similar to both lidocaine and mepivacaine. Chemically, prilocaine is a toluidine derivative, and lidocaine and mepivacaine are xylidine derivatives.

Sep 21,2020  Antineoplastic agents

What is Cabazitaxel?

The taxane derivative cabazitaxel (JevtanaR) is approved in the USA and the EU for use in combination with prednisone for the treatment of patients with hormone-refractory metastatic prostate cancer.

Feb 11,2020  Antineoplastic agents
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