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By M. F. G. Stevens (auth.), M. J. Waring, B. A. J. Ponder (eds.)

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Most of the anti-cancer medicinal drugs in use at the present time have been stumbled on through satisfied coincidence instead of layout, but the rational layout of higher anti-cancer medicinal drugs is still a adored objective, and essentially the most vital demanding situations dealing with scientific technological know-how.
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The mechanism of hypoxia selectivity is considered to be an initial one-electron reduction to the C3-centred radical anion, which can be back-scavenged by oxygen. In the absence of oxygen, this radical anion abstracts hydrogen atoms from cellular targets (including DNA deoxyribose) to form the mono-oxide, which reacts (at a much lower rate due to a lower redox potential) in another 2-electron step 194. A dosedependent hypoxia-selective formation of both single- and double-strand DNA breaks is seen, and these correlate with cytotoxicity.

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