The dual ALK/MET inhibitor crizotinib was recently approved for the treatment of metastatic and late-stage ALK+ NSCLC, and is currently in clinical trial for other ALK-related diseases. As predicted after other tyrosine kinase inhibitors' clinical experience, the first mutations that confer resistance to crizotinib have been described in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and in o...

The dual ALK/MET inhibitor crizotinib was recently approved for the treatment of metastatic and late-stage ALKþ NSCLC, and is currently in clinical trial for other ALK-related diseases. As predicted after other tyrosine kinase inhibitors' clinical experience, the first mutations that confer resistance to crizotinib have been described in patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and in o...

Nonsteroidal aromatase inhibitors (NSAIs) are well-established drugs for the therapy of breast cancer. However, they display some serious side effects, and their efficacy can be compromised by development chemoresistance. Previously, we have reported different indazole-based carbamates piperidine-sulphonamides as potent inhibitors. Starting from most promising compounds, here synthesised new in...

Abstract The selective inhibition of enzymes that catalyze the conversion arachidonic acid to inflammatory eicosanoids represents a promising approach for cancer therapy. This study, therefore, focuses on incorporation metabolically stable, sterically demanding, and hydrophobic carboranes into existing dual cycloxygenase‐2 (COX‐2)/5‐lipoxygenase (5‐LO) inhibitors are key in biosynthesis eicosan...

Histone deacetylases (HDACs) have attracted a great deal of interest as anticancer drug targets, and many HDAC inhibitors (HDACIs) have displayed clinical efficacy in treating specific tumors. However, all of these agents have significant toxicity, including fatigue, nausea, vomiting, thrombocytopenia, and neutropenia. Thus, increased effort is being directed toward developing selective HDACIs ...

A structural series of 7-MEOTA-adamantylamine thioureas was designed, synthesized and evaluated as inhibitors of human acetylcholinesterase (hAChE) and human butyrylcholinesterase (hBChE). The compounds were prepared based on the multi-target-directed ligand strategy with different linker lengths (n = 2-8) joining the well-known NMDA antagonist adamantine and the hAChE inhibitor 7-methoxytacrin...

Mitogen-activated protein kinase phosphatase (MKP)-1 is a dual-specificity phosphatase that negatively regulates the activity of mitogen-activated kinases and that is overexpressed in human tumors. Contemporary studies suggest that induction of MKP-1 during chemotherapy may limit the efficacy of clinically used antineoplastic agents. Thus, MKP-1 is a rational target to enhance anticancer drug a...

Current treatment strategies for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) involve a combination of conventional chemotherapeutics, monoclonal antibodies, and targeted signaling inhibitors. However, CLL remains largely incurable, with drug resistance and treatment relapse a common occurrence, leading to the search for novel treatments. Mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR)-specific inhibitors have be...