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INTRODUCTIONThere is a major need for new drug discovery in the field of prostate cancer. There is a particular need for developing new agents to prevent this disease, since screening techniques are now identifying large numbers of men with early, pre-malignant lesions in their prostate. Such lesions do not require surgery and are not treatable with conventional chemotherapy. However, men with this type of pre-malignant condition are at definite risk for future development of invasive, metastatic prostate cancer which is life-threatening. This project will attempt to develop a new class of molecules, the triterpenoids, as chemopreventive agents which could eventually be used to prevent prostate cancer in men at high risk. In addition to the pentacyclic triterpenoids described in the above preprint, we have also been attempting to simplify the structural requirements for inhibition of de novo synthesis of iNOS. Ac...