Dasatinib has been used:as a protein kinase inhibitor to study its effects on macrophage polarization, lipogenesis, western diet-induced progression of simple steatosis into steatohepatitis (NASH), and liver fibrosis in miceas an SRC tyrosine kinase inhibitor to study its effects on hepatocellular carcinoma cellsas a tyrosine kinase inhibitor to study its effects on autophagy in neuronal cells
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Dasatinib is a thiazole-carboxamide compound that inhibits a broad spectrum of protein kinases such as breakpoint cluster region-tyrosine protein kinase ABL (Bcr-Abl), Btk family members, platelet-derived growth factor receptor ?/? (PDGFR-?/?), and ephrin receptor kinase. It also inhibits Src-family kinases such as SRC tyrosine kinase, and lymphocyte-specific protein kinase (LCK). Dasatinib exhibits certain effects on hematopoietic cells like suppressingnatural killer celltoxicity, inhibiting Tlymphocytes activation and proliferation, and influencingplatelet activation. It is also studied in the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).