Mitaplatin, a Potent Fusion of Cisplatin and the Orphan Drug Dichloroacetate

The unique glycolytic metabolism of most solid tumors, known as the Warburg effect, is associated with resistance to apoptosis that enables cancer cells to survive. Dichloroacetate (DCA) is an anticancer agent that can reverse the Warburg effect by inhibiting a key enzyme in cancer cells, pyruvate d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lippard, Stephen J., Dhar, Shanta
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: National Academy of Sciences 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61342
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2693-4982