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ReviewPharmaceutics2022

Bioactivity and Development of Small Non-Platinum Metal-Based Chemotherapeutics.

Maria Grazia Ferraro, Marialuisa Piccolo, Gabriella Misso, Rita Santamaria, Carlo Irace

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Review in Pharmaceutics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Design and biological evaluation of a histidine-bearing cyclometalated Pd(II) complex derived from 2-phenylpyridine.Biometals : an international journal on the role of metal ions in biology, biochemistry, and medicine · 2026
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  2. 2-Hydroxy-1-naphthaldehyde-based organotin(IV) complexes: structural aspects, cytotoxicity, DNA binding interaction, and molecular docking.Biometals : an international journal on the role of metal ions in biology, biochemistry, and medicine · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Maria Grazia FerraroBioChemLab, Department of Pharmacy, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples "Federico II", Via D. Montesano 49, 80131 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3022-1205
Marialuisa PiccoloBioChemLab, Department of Pharmacy, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples "Federico II", Via D. Montesano 49, 80131 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8908-4532
Gabriella MissoDepartment of Precision Medicine, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", 80138 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7787-2531
Rita SantamariaBioChemLab, Department of Pharmacy, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples "Federico II", Via D. Montesano 49, 80131 Naples, Italy.
Carlo IraceBioChemLab, Department of Pharmacy, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples "Federico II", Via D. Montesano 49, 80131 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5172-4573

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Countless expectations converge in the multidisciplinary endeavour for the search and development of effective and safe drugs in fighting cancer. Although they still embody a minority of the pharmacological agents currently in clinical use, metal-based complexes have great yet unexplored potential, which probably hides forthcoming anticancer drugs. Following the historical success of cisplatin and congeners, but also taking advantage of conventional chemotherapy limitations that emerged with applications in the clinic, the design and development of non-platinum metal-based chemotherapeutics, either as drugs or prodrugs, represents a rapidly evolving field wherein candidate compounds can be fine-tuned to access interactions with druggable biological targets. Moving in this direction, over the last few decades platinum family metals, e.g., ruthenium and palladium, have been largely proposed. Indeed, transition metals and molecular platforms where they originate are endowed with unique chemical and biological features based on, but not limited to, redox activity and coordination geometries, as well as ligand selection (including their inherent reactivity and bioactivity). Herein, current applications and progress in metal-based chemoth are reviewed. Converging on the recent literature, new attractive chemotherapeutics based on transition metals other than platinum-and their bioactivity and mechanisms of action-are examined and discussed. A special focus is committed to anticancer agents based on ruthenium, palladium, rhodium, and iridium, but also to gold derivatives, for which more experimental data are nowadays available. Next to platinum-based agents, ruthenium-based candidate drugs were the first to reach the stage of clinical evaluation in humans, opening new scenarios for the development of alternative chemotherapeutic options to treat cancer.

Indexed as

chemoresistancechemotherapygold-based drugsiridium-based drugsmetal-based chemotherapeuticspalladium-based drugsplatinum-based drugsrhodium-based drugsruthenium-based drugs

Identifiers

PMID35631543
PMCPMC9147010

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