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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Shiwei Deng
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-14886 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Molecular cancer therapeutics 20090505 5
Coadministration of the iron chelator dexrazoxane reduces by 80% the incidence of heart failure in cancer patients treated with anthracyclines. The clinical application of dexrazoxane is limited, however, because its ability to inhibit topoisomerase IIα (TOP2A) is feared to adversely affect anthracycline chemotherapy, which involves TOP2A-mediated generation of DNA double-strand breaks (DSB). Here, we investigated the apoptotic effects of dexrazoxane and the anthracycline doxorubicin, alone and ...[more]