History shows that metal-based drugs and remedies have been known and used since very
ancient times. For example, silver was employed in the treatment of wounds and ulcers …

Metals are essential cellular components selected by nature to function in several
indispensable biochemical processes for living organisms. Transition metal complexes are …

Besides the remarkable therapeutic success of anticancer drugs such as cisplatin,
carboplatin and oxaliplatin, metallodrugs have also shown promising results in the treatment …

Transition metals have an important place within medicinal biochemistry. Research has
shown significant progress in utilization of transition metal complexes as drugs to treat …

In 1969, Barnett Rosenberg, Loretta Van Camp, and Thomas Krigas published a seminal
paper that described the antiproliferative activity of a very simple inorganic compound, today …

Research into cancer therapeutics has uncovered various potential medications based on
metal-containing scaffolds after the discovery and clinical applications of cisplatin as an anti …

Metals and metal compounds have been used in medicine for several thousands of years. In
this review we summarized the anti-cancer activities of the ten most active metals: arsenic …

Working from basic chemical principles, Metals in Medicine, 2nd Edition describes a wide
range of metal-based agents for treating and diagnosing disease. Thoroughly revised and …

Metal ions play important roles in biological processes, 1 and the field of knowledge
concerned with the application of inorganic chemistry to therapy or diagnosis of disease is …

Coordination compounds on account of distinctive features of metal ions that include
variable oxidation states, diverse range of geometries and coordination numbers …