Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
Brief Article
Indolin-2-one RET Inhibitors. Bioorg. Med. Chem. 2010, 18, 1482−
1496.
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Notes
The authors declare no competing financial interest.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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This work was supported by a grant from the European
Commission (the CELLCOMPUT project, contract no.
043310) to M.G., from Percy Falk’s foundation to J.P.A., and
from the Swedish Cancer Fund (10-0633) to P.S. This is a
publication from the Chemical Biology Platform at the
University of Gothenburg.
ABBREVIATIONS USED
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TK, tyrosine kinases; RTK, receptor tyrosine kinases; RET,
rearranged during transfection; GDNF, glial-derived neuro-
trophic factor; MEN2, multiple endocrine neoplasia 2
syndromes; FMTC, familial medullary thyroid carcinoma;
PTC, papillary thyroid carcinoma; DMF, dimethylformamide;
THF, tetrahydrofuran
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