Sökning: "cytotoxic drug"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 128 avhandlingar innehållade orden cytotoxic drug.
1. Circumventing drug resistance : Studies exploring the expediency of a total cell kill chemoresistance assay
Sammanfattning : Cellular resistance to anti-cancer drugs is considered to be the major cause of treatment failure in clinical practice. The present studies have therefore focused on ways to circumvent resistance as evaluated by an in vitro chemoresistance assay. LÄS MER
2. Mistletoes and Thionins : as Selection Models in Natural Products Drug Discovery
Sammanfattning : The process of drug discovery from natural products starts with the selection of study object. In this project recent knowledge and methods are incorporated to investigate the process of such selection for pharmacognostic investigations. LÄS MER
3. Cyclotides : Tuning Parameters Toward Their Use in Drug Design
Sammanfattning : Cyclotides are plant proteins with a unique topology, defined as the cyclic cystine knot motif. The motif endows cyclotides with exceptional chemical and biological stability. They also exhibit a wide range of biological activities including insecticidal, cytotoxic, anti-HIV and antimicrobial effects. LÄS MER
4. Exploring Cancer Drugs In Vitro and In Vivo : With Special Reference to Chemosensitivity Testing and Early Clinical Development
Sammanfattning : The aims of this thesis were to investigate the utility of in vitro drug sensitivity testing to optimize the use of cancer chemotherapy and to assess the properties of a new cancer drug in a phase I clinical trial. Tumour cells from patients were analysed with the short-term Fluorometric Microculture Cytotoxicity Assay (FMCA). LÄS MER
5. Studies of Cytotoxic Compounds of Natural Origin and their Mechanisms of Action
Sammanfattning : Cancer incidence is increasing and novel anticancer drugs with new mechanisms of action are essential for future chemotherapeutic treatment. Natural products have historically played an important role in the development of anti-cancer drugs and have potential to do so also in the future. LÄS MER