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    Imatinib, sold under the brand names Gleevec and Glivec (both marketed worldwide by Novartis) among others, is an oral targeted therapy medication used...
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    action as a tyrosine kinase, targeted therapies (the first of which was imatinib) that specifically inhibit the activity of the BCR-ABL protein have been...
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  • kinase. Before the 2001 U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of imatinib, no drugs were available to alter the natural progression of CML. Only...
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    step for the development of cancer. Therefore, kinase inhibitors, such as imatinib and osimertinib, are often effective cancer treatments. Most tyrosine kinases...
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    patent imatinib mesylate in beta crystalline form (rather than imatinib or imatinib mesylate); thus they sought to prevent extant literature on imatinib or...
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    exon 17 are responsible for resistance to targeted therapy drugs like imatinib mesylate, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor. KIT-p.D419del (exon 8) — A subset...
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    the years. However, French scientists treating leukemia patients with imatinib, a drug used in treating cancer, noted an unexpected side effect: some...
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    tissue. One of the most successful molecular targeted therapeutics is imatinib, marketed as Gleevec, which is a kinase inhibitor with exceptional affinity...
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    anion, the spelling used is sometimes mesilate (as in imatinib mesilate, the mesylate salt of imatinib). Mesylate esters are a group of organic compounds...
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    well as in accelerated and chronic phase CML that has not responded to imatinib. It is taken by mouth. Common side effects may include low platelets, low...
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    approved by the FDA for the treatment of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and imatinib-resistant gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) in January 2006. Sunitinib...
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  • Topotecan Etoposide Teniposide Tafluposide Bortezomib Erlotinib Gefitinib Imatinib Vemurafenib Vismodegib Azacitidine Azathioprine Capecitabine Cytarabine...
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    anti-mast cell activity) Chronic myelogenous leukemia (largely replaced by imatinib, but still in use for its cost-effectiveness) Reported side effects are:...
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    kinase inhibitors specific to such domains as CC, Y177, and Rho (such as imatinib and sunitinib) are important drugs against a variety of cancers including...
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    reactions with phenelzine, and a potential interaction has been reported with imatinib, resulting in hepatotoxicity, and with lamotrigine. The common ginsengs...
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    CML CP) or Ph+ CML CP resistant or intolerant to prior therapy including imatinib. newly diagnosed Ph+ acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) in combination...
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    cancer's cell division. The classic example of targeted development is imatinib mesylate (Gleevec), a small molecule which inhibits a signaling molecule...
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    small number of children also develop this disease. It is treated with imatinib (Gleevec in United States, Glivec in Europe) or other drugs. The five-year...
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    inhibitor of Lyn and Bcr-Abl. It reached phase II clinical trials in 2010. Imatinib was the first Bcr-Abl tyrosine-kinase inhibitor and was highly successful...
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    drug sensitivity), respond well or are anticipated to respond well to imatinib therapy as described for the treatment of diseases caused by FIP1L1-PDGFRA...
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    GlaxoSmithKline in 2015 deal), carbamazepine (Tegretol), valsartan (Diovan), imatinib mesylate (Gleevec/Glivec), cyclosporine (Neoral/Sandimmune), letrozole...
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    through which imatinib eliminates leukemic cells, that leukemic animals could be cured using imatinib, and that resistance to imatinib could be mediated...
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    factor and vascular endothelial growth factor. Bosutinib inhibited 16 of 18 imatinib-resistant forms of Bcr-Abl expressed in murine myeloid cell lines, but...
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    γ-secretase. Imatinib itself does not get into the brain so imatinib could not be used as an AD therapeutic. However it may be possible to identify imatinib-like...
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    rituximab, sirolimus, alefacept, and the tyrosine kinase inhibitors, imatinib, nilotinib, and dasatinib. Experimental therapies under investigation include...
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    Fluvoxamine (Luvox, Faverin, Fevarin and Dumyrox) Imatinib (Gleevec): Although no formal studies with imatinib and grapefruit juice have been conducted, the...
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  • return for a large sum of money. Due to patent protection, the Swiss drug imatinib is very expensive and cannot be afforded by most leukemia patients in China...
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    B, C, D) Kinase inhibitors: Agerafenib Avapritinib Axitinib Crenolanib Imatinib Lenvatinib Masitinib Motesanib Nintedanib Pazopanib Radotinib Quizartinib...
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    eosinophils through ADCC antagonists of leukotriene synthesis or receptors imatinib (STI571) – inhibits PDGF-BB in hypereosinophilic leukemia Monoclonal antibodies...
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    US FDA approved (imatinib mesylate) for the treatment of DFSP. As is true for all medicinal drugs with name ending in "ib," imatinib is a small molecular...
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