[Imatinib, first designed to competitively inhibit the ATP-binding pocket of the BCR-ABL tyrosin kinase exhibits inhibition also in the KIT and PDGFRα tyrosine kinases, which revolutionized the therapy of gastrointestinal stromal tumors, a disease without any systemic treatment options prior to imatinib.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE