Cancer Vaccines
Research add new data to cancer vaccines body of knowledge
Published in Cancer Weekly, October 11th, 2005
Study 1: Researchers have developed a bifunctional targeted peptide that blocks HER-2 tyrosine kinase and disables mitochondrial function in HER-2-positive carcinoma cells.
"The HER-2 oncoprotein is commonly overexpressed in a variety of human malignancies and has become an attractive antitumor target. A number of strategies to inhibit the HER-2 receptor tyrosine kinase are currently the focus of intensive preclinical and clinical research," scientists in the United States report.
"In the present study, we have engineered a bifunctional...
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