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- initialism biology PolyADP-ribose polymerase
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Examples
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Doctors Wednesday also announced that an experimental drug, in a class called PARP inhibitors, helped keep advanced ovarian cancers in check nearly four months longer than a placebo.
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Doctors Wednesday also announced that an experimental drug, in a class called PARP inhibitors, helped keep advanced ovarian cancers in check nearly four months longer than a placebo.
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The compounds, known as PARP inhibitors, work by obstructing the ability of cells damaged by chemotherapy or through genetic mutations to repair themselves, causing tumor cells to die as a result.
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Olaparib works by inhibiting a protein called PARP, or poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase.
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Until now it was only thought that those who had ovarian cancer as a result carrying an inherited "faulty" copy of the BRCA gene - accounting for up to 15 per cent of cases - would benefit from a class of drug called PARP inhibitors.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Until now it was only thought that those who had ovarian cancer as a result carrying an inherited "faulty" copy of the BRCA gene - accounting for up to 15 per cent of cases - would benefit from a class of drug called PARP inhibitors.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Olaparib - a member of a new class of drug called PARP inhibitors - targets cancer cells, but leaves healthy cells relatively unscathed.
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Olaparib - a member of a new class of drug called PARP inhibitors - targets cancer cells, but leaves healthy cells relatively unscathed.
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Olaparib - a member of a new class of drug called PARP inhibitors - targets cancer cells, but leaves healthy cells relatively unscathed.
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Olaparib - a member of a new class of drug called PARP inhibitors - targets cancer cells, but leaves healthy cells relatively unscathed.
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