Nedaplatin (INN, marketed under the tradename Aqupla) is a platinum-based antineoplastic drug which is used for cancer chemotherapy.[1] The complex consists of two ammine ligands and the dianion derived from glycolic acid.

Platinum-based drugs are widely employed as antineoplastic agents, especially cisplatin and carboplatin. Due to issues of their toxicity and number of cisplatin-resistant cancer cells, other platinum derivatives have been developed. Nedaplatin is one example of such new drugs.[2]

References

  1. ^ Apps MG, Choi EH, Wheate NJ (August 2015). "The state-of-play and future of platinum drugs". Endocrine-Related Cancer. 22 (4): R219-33. doi:10.1530/ERC-15-0237. hdl:2123/24426. PMID 26113607.
  2. ^ Johnstone TC, Park GY, Lippard SJ (January 2014). "Understanding and improving platinum anticancer drugs--phenanthriplatin". Anticancer Research. 34 (1): 471–6. PMC 3937549. PMID 24403503.

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