ADENOSINE A3 RECEPTORS: A NEW THERAPEUTIC APPROACH IN CANCER.

ADENOSINE A(3) RECEPTORS: A NEW THERAPEUTIC APPROACH IN CANCER. Cancer is a multi-factorial disease linked with different initiating causes, cofactors and promoters, and several types of cellular damage. Advancing knowledge on the cellular and molecular biology of the processes that regulate cell proliferation, cell differentiation and cellular responses to external signals, has provided a wealth of information about the cancer cell and how it differs from a normal one. These findings make available a number of potential targets for new therapeutic approaches. The Medicinal Chemistry artwork performed so far in the development of selective and potent adenosine receptor A(3) ligands, a current cancer target, will be highlighted in this work.