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SUBMITTER: Cetinkaya-Fisgin A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7736304 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cetinkaya-Fisgin Aysel A Luan Xinghua X Reed Nicole N Jeong Ye Eun YE Oh Byoung Chol BC Hoke Ahmet A
Scientific reports 20201214 1
Cisplatin is a commonly used chemotherapy agent with significant dose-limiting neurotoxicity resulting in peripheral neuropathy. Although it is postulated that formation of DNA-platinum adducts is responsible for both its cytotoxicity in cancer cells and side effects in neurons, downstream mechanisms that lead to distal axonal degeneration are unknown. Here we show that activation of calpains is required for both neurotoxicity and formation of DNA-platinum adduct formation in neurons but not in ...[more]