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Breast Cancer
Data on breast cancer published by C. Giese and colleagues
December 11th, 2008
"Nonproteinogenic amino acids that either occur naturally or are synthesized chemically are becoming important tools in modern drug discovery. In this context, fluorinated amino acids have great potential in the development of novel pharmaceuticals and drugs," scientists writing in the journal Chemmedchem report. "To assess whether different fluorinated aromatic amino acid analogues of phenylalanine, tyrosine, and tryptophan are potentially interesting as therapeutic drugs, we examined their cytostatic and cytotoxic effects on the growth of the human breast cancer cell line MCF-7. Of all the tested analogues L-4-fluorotryptophan, L-6-fluorotryptophan and...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-12-11)
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