Gefitinib and afatinib show potential efficacy for Fanconi anemia-related head and neck cancer was written by Montanuy, Helena;Martinez-Barriocanal, Agueda;Casado, Jose Antonio;Rovirosa, Llorenc;Ramirez, Maria Jose;Nieto, Rocio;Carrascoso-Rubio, Carlos;Riera, Pau;Gonzalez, Alan;Lerma, Enrique;Lasa, Adriana;Carreras-Puigvert, Jordi;Helleday, Thomas;Bueren, Juan A.;Arango, Diego;Minguillon, Jordi;Surralles, Jordi. And the article was included in Clinical Cancer Research in 2020.Reference of 212141-54-3 This article mentions the following:
In this work, we searched and validated two already approved drugs as new potential therapies for HNSCC in patients with Fanconi anemia. We conducted a high-content screening of 3,802 drugs in a FANCA-deficient tumor cell line to identify nongenotoxic drugs with cytotoxic/cytostatic activity. The best candidates were further studied in vitro and in vivo for efficacy and safety. Results: Several FDA/European Medicines Agency (EMA)-approved anticancer drugs showed cancer-specific lethality or cell growth inhibition in Fanconi anemia HNSCC cell lines. The two best candidates, gefitinib and afatinib, EGFR inhibitors approved for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), displayed nontumor/tumor IC50 ratios of approx. 400 and approx. 100 times, resp. Neither gefitinib nor afatinib activated the Fanconi anemia signaling pathway or induced chromosomal fragility in Fanconi anemia cell lines. Importantly, both drugs inhibited tumor growth in xenograft experiments in immunodeficient mice using two Fanconi anemia patient-derived HNSCCs. Finally, in vivo toxicity studies in Fanca-deficient mice showed that administration of gefitinib or afatinib was well-tolerated, displayed manageable side effects, no toxicity to bone marrow progenitors, and did not alter any hematol. parameters. Conclusions: Our data present a complete preclin. anal. and promising therapeutic line of the first FDA/EMA-approved anticancer drugs exerting cancer-specific toxicity for HNSCC in patients with Fanconi anemia. In the experiment, the researchers used many compounds, for example, N-(4-Chlorophenyl)-4-(pyridin-4-ylmethyl)phthalazin-1-amine (cas: 212141-54-3Reference of 212141-54-3).
N-(4-Chlorophenyl)-4-(pyridin-4-ylmethyl)phthalazin-1-amine (cas: 212141-54-3) belongs to phthalazine derivatives. Phthalazines, as an important class of bicyclic N-heterocycles, have attracted sizable attention due to their valuable biological and pharmacological activities. New methods for the functionalization of pyridazine, phthalazine, and cinnoline rings emerged in 2016. Buchwald and his group devised an asymmetric hydroarylation of vinylarenes.Reference of 212141-54-3
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