Research progress on anti-cancer effects of tuftsin and its derivatives / 中国药理学通报

tuftsin,a physiologically active peptide,can promote phagocytosis,basically stimulates the macrophages or neutro-phils and improve their phagocytotic function.tuftsin can not di-rectly kill tumor cells.Due to its short structure and the charac-teristics of being susceptible to hydrolysis,it is difficult for tuft-sin to be made into medicine and applied clinically.However, derivatives of tuftsin-series and combination of tuftsin with other drugs can greatly enhance the cytotoxic effect on tumor cells of tuftsin.It has a broad prospect of research,especially deriva-tive-TP has a significant anti-tumor effect.Its mechanism is clear and its is expected to become a new type of anti-tumor bio-logical response regulator.