Paul Ehrlich's magic bullet concept: 100 Years of progress

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 473-480

  Strebhardt, Klaus ^a   Ullrich, Axel ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMINOPTERIN; BEVACIZUMAB; BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; GELDANAMYCIN; GEMTUZUMAB OZOGAMICIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; IMATINIB; MERCAPTOPURINE; METHOTREXATE; MITOMYCIN C; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; RITUXIMAB; SUNITINIB; TRASTUZUMAB;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CELL; CANCER THERAPY; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; DNA REPLICATION; DRUG CONJUGATION; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG MECHANISM; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCIENTIST;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; DRUG DESIGN; GERMANY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 44449085539     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc2394     Document Type: Review

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