The design, synthesis and preliminary biological evaluation of carbohy
drate-based non-peptide mimetics of the potent peptidic antagonist of
alpha(v) beta(3), and alpha(v) beta(5), pentapeptide cRGDFV (1) is pre
sented. The design was based on the NMR-determined structure of 1. (C)
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