Title: Recent Progress in the Design of Selectin Inhibitors
Volume: 3
Issue: 7
Author(s): Siri Ram Chhabra, Aisyah S. Abdul Rahim and Barrie Kellam
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Keywords:
selectins, sialyl lewis, adhesion molecules, antagonist, mimetics, inflammation
Abstract: The selectins are a family of cell-adhesion proteins that mediate the early stages of leukocyte recruitment from the blood stream to sites of tissue damage through recognition of the carbohydrate epitope sialyl Lewis-x (sLe-x). Current development of small molecule based inhibitors of this process and their clinical potential to address numerous acute and chronic diseases are explored.