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The use of targeted cytotoxins to make highly selective neural lesions for both experimental and clinical purposes has already provided important animal models for diseases such as Alzheimer's, and holds great promise for research and clinical application to pain. In Molecular Neurosurgery With Targeted Toxins, pioneers in the field describe their hands-on experience with the experimental use of these toxins. The authors focus on the highly successful use of the immunotoxins, 192 IgG-saporin and ME20.4-saporin, to lesion the cholinergic basal forebrain in order to model the behavior, anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology of Alzheimer's disease in animals. Also discussed are the uses of anti-DBH-saporin immunotoxin to make remarkably selective lesions of catecholaminergic neurons, hypocretin-saporin that can produce narcoleptic animals, and other saporin conjugates, such as neuropeptide-saporin conjugates for pain research and cholera toxin B chain-saporin to produce a model of central nervous system demyelination. Overview perspectives and, in some cases, more practical details are provided that allow the reader to appreciate exactly what is involved in using these agents. Both practical and theoretical, Molecular Neurosurgery With Targeted Toxins provides readers with not only the background to understand these techniques, but also numerous real-life examples that can be readily adapted to new purposes and an ever-increasing number of new targeted toxins.

Neurotoxic agents --- Drug targeting. --- Antibody-toxin conjugates --- Therapeutic use. --- Conjugates, Antibody-toxin --- Immunoconjugates --- Immunoglobulin-toxin conjugates --- Immunotoxins --- Toxin-antibody conjugates --- Toxin-immunoglobulin conjugates --- Bioconjugates --- Immunopharmacology --- Immunotoxicology --- Toxins --- Drugs --- Site-specific drug delivery --- Targeting of drugs --- Target organs (Anatomy) --- Neuropoisons --- Neurotoxicants --- Neurotoxins --- Poisons --- Targeting --- Dosage forms --- Neurosurgery. --- Nerves --- Neurosurgery --- Surgery --- Nervous system --- Surgery.

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This volume is a guide to understanding resistance against targeted therapeutic approaches for cancer using immunotoxins. It contains a detailed review of the history and development of targeted therapy. As well, it includes an in-depth description of the molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in cancer resistance and several novel methods to overcome resistance. Each chapter discusses different aspects of resistance and covers all the factors that may contribute to resistance in cancer cells. Finally, this volume highlights the recent findings and advances associated with tackling cancer resistance.

Biomedicine. --- Cancer Research. --- Drug Resistance. --- Pharmacology/Toxicology. --- Medicine. --- Oncology. --- Drug interactions. --- Toxicology. --- Médecine --- Cancérologie --- Médicaments --- Toxicologie --- Interaction --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Oncology --- Antibody-toxin conjugates. --- Cancer --- Treatment. --- Cancer therapy --- Cancer treatment --- Conjugates, Antibody-toxin --- Immunoconjugates --- Immunoglobulin-toxin conjugates --- Immunotoxins --- Toxin-antibody conjugates --- Toxin-immunoglobulin conjugates --- Therapy --- Cancer research. --- Drug resistance. --- Pharmacology. --- Bioconjugates --- Immunopharmacology --- Immunotoxicology --- Toxins --- Chemicals --- Pharmacology --- Poisoning --- Poisons --- Interactions, Drug --- Drugs --- Tumors --- Toxicology --- Side effects --- Drug effects --- Medical pharmacology --- Medical sciences --- Chemotherapy --- Pharmacy --- Resistance to drugs --- Cancer research --- Physiological effect

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The concept of delivering ‘magic bullets’ to treat diseases was first proposed by Paul Erlich in the early 1900’s.  The realization of this concept for the treatment of cancer occurred in the late 1990’s with the approval of monoclonal antibody therapies.  The use of monoclonal antibodies conjugated (linked) to potent cytotoxic agents (antibody-drug conjugates, ADCs) for specifically delivering cytotoxics to cancer cells was an obvious extension of antibody-based therapy.  ADCs have been under intense investigation for several decades; progress, however, has been limited due to toxicity or lack of improved efficacy compared to unconjugated cytotoxics.  More recently, linker technology and target selection have advanced such that several ADCs and immunotoxins are undergoing clinical testing or are approved for use.  This important volume gives the latest and most comprehensive information on the topic, describing different types of ADCs and immunotoxins for both hematologic and solid malignancies. Finally, the volume highlights the promise that this technology holds for diverse types of human cancer.

Antibodies. --- Antibody-drug conjugates. --- Immunotoxins -- Therapeutic use. --- Antibody-drug conjugates --- Antibody-toxin conjugates --- Diseases --- Pharmaceutical Preparations --- Immunoconjugates --- Immunoglobulins --- Therapeutics --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Immunoproteins --- Chemicals and Drugs --- Blood Proteins --- Proteins --- Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins --- Immunotoxins --- Neoplasms --- Drug Therapy --- Antibodies --- Drug Combinations --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Oncology --- Antibody-toxin conjugates. --- Conjugates, Antibody-toxin --- Immunoglobulin-toxin conjugates --- Toxin-antibody conjugates --- Toxin-immunoglobulin conjugates --- Conjugates, Antibody-drug --- Drug-antibody conjugates --- Drug immunoconjugates --- Drug-immunoglobulin conjugates --- Immunoconjugates, Drug --- Immunoglobulin-drug conjugates --- Medicine. --- Cancer research. --- Biomedicine. --- Cancer Research. --- Biomedicine general. --- Immune globulins --- Immune serum globulin --- Blood proteins --- Globulins --- Plasma cells --- Antibody diversity --- Antigens --- Bacterial immunoglobulin-binding proteins --- Cancer research --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Bioconjugates --- Immunopharmacology --- Immunotoxicology --- Toxins --- Drugs --- Dosage forms --- Oncology. --- Monoclonal antibodies. --- Antibodies, Monoclonal --- Monoclonal immunoglobulins --- Molecular cloning --- Tumors --- Health Workforce --- Biomedicine, general.