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  1. PARP Inhibitors: What They Are, Types & Side Effects

    Jan 16, 2025 · PARP inhibitors are a targeted therapy treatment for some forms of cancers that involve changes (mutations) in the BRCA gene. This includes some types of breast, ovarian and prostate …

  2. Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase - Wikipedia

    Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) is a family of proteins involved in a number of cellular processes such as DNA repair, genomic stability, and programmed cell death. [1] The PARP family comprises …

  3. What are PARP inhibitors? - MD Anderson Cancer Center

    Apr 3, 2024 · PARP inhibitors are a type of targeted therapy commonly used to treat breast cancer and ovarian cancer, among others. They target PARP, or poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase, which is a …

  4. List of PARP inhibitors (Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors ...

    Apr 14, 2023 · Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors, also called PARP inhibitors, are targeted therapies that are used to treat cancer. PARP is a protein that has a role in cellular growth, …

  5. PARPs and PARP inhibitors: molecular mechanisms and clinical ...

    Dec 29, 2025 · Clinically, PARP inhibitors (PARPi), such as olaparib, niraparib, rucaparib, and talazoparib, exploit synthetic lethality in homologous recombination-deficient tumors and are …

  6. PARP Inhibitors | Targeted cancer drugs | Cancer Research UK

    PARP is a protein (enzyme) found in our cells, it stands for p oly- A DP r ibose p olymerase. It helps damaged cells to repair themselves. As a cancer treatment, PARP inhibitors stop the PARP from …

  7. PARP Inhibitors - Susan G. Komen®

    Feb 27, 2025 · Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) is an enzyme that helps repair DNA damage. PARP inhibitors are drugs that try to keep cancer cells from repairing damaged tumor DNA, leading …

  8. PARP inhibitors: Overview and indications - The Jackson Laboratory

    PARP (poly ADP-ribose polymerase) are proteins that bind to broken strands of DNA and recruit other proteins to repair damaged DNA. There are multiple pathways (controlled by multiple genes) …

  9. What Are PARP Inhibitors and How Do They Work?

    Among DNA repair pathways, the Poly ADP-ribose polymerase (PARP) family of enzymes, particularly PARP-1, plays an important role. PARP-1 is a protein that detects and binds to single-strand breaks …

  10. Definition of PARP inhibitor - NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms

    A substance that blocks an enzyme in cells called PARP. PARP helps repair DNA when it becomes damaged. DNA damage may be caused by many things, including exposure to UV light, radiation, …