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SUBMITTER: Thibault B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6294826 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Thibault Benoît B Genre Ludivine L Le Naour Augustin A Broca Clothilde C Mery Eliane E Vuagniaux Grégoire G Delord Jean Pierre JP Wiedemann Norbert N Couderc Bettina B
Scientific reports 20181214 1
The poor prognosis of ovarian cancer (it is the leading cause of death from gynecological cancers) is mainly due to the acquisition of resistance to carboplatin. Among the possible resistance pathways, resistance to apoptosis and especially the overexpression of inhibitor of apoptosis proteins (IAP) cIAP1 and X-linked IAP (XIAP), have been implicated. DEBIO 1143, a SMAC (second mitochondria-derived activator of caspase) mimetic, belongs to a new class of targeted agents currently being evaluated ...[more]