Protein Domain Linked To Tumor Progression Isolated
Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 21:35
in Health & Medicine
When a promising cancer drug reached clinical trials in the 1990s, researchers were disappointed by the debilitating side effects that limited the trials. The drug inhibited a family of enzymes known as matrix metalloproteinases. Now, researchers have shown that creating drugs that inactivate a different part of the MMP enzyme could have the capacity to target the tumor without the damaging side effects. Their findings hold promise for improved cancer therapies.