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SUBMITTER: Ohara T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6132348 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ohara Toshiaki T Tomono Yasuko Y Boyi Xing X Yingfu Sun S Omori Kazuhiro K Matsukawa Akihiro A
Oncotarget 20180828 67
Iron chelation therapy is the main treatment for iron overload disease. Iron chelators were recently reported to be useful for cancer therapy; however, they cause side effects that make them difficult to use in some cancer patients. Thus, a novel oral iron chelator, super-polyphenol (SP), was developed for cancer therapy to decrease the side effects. SP is either water soluble or insoluble, and has different isoforms according to the number of side chains. Of these isoforms, water-soluble SP6 an ...[more]