Anticancer drugs
Subtitle: antimetabolite metabolism and natural anticancer agents
By: specialist subject editor, Garth Powis.
Contributors: Powis, Garth.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: International encyclopedia of pharmacology and therapeutics ;; section 140
Publisher: Pergamon Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Oxford, England; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 506
Subjects: Antineoplastic agents -- Metabolism.; Antimetabolites -- Metabolism.; Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic.; Antineoplastic Agents -- metabolism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Control of cancer by amino acids analogs; title: Metabolism of pyrimidine analogues and their nucleosides; title: Metabolism and action of purine nucleoside analogs; title: Basis for antifolate cytotoxicity, selectivity and metabolic transformations: effects on utilization of endogenous and exogenous folate cofactors; title: Metabolic basis for combination chemotherapy; title: Metabolism of antihormonal anticancer agents; title: Metabolism of natural and synthetic steroids used in cancer treatment; title: Metabolism of plant-derived anticancer agents; title: Metabolism of protein anticancer agents; title: Metabolism of new anticancer agents; title: Metabolism of cancer drugs as a basis for drug resistance.