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Necrotic concentrations of cisplatin activate the apoptotic machinery but inhibit effector caspases and interfere with the execution of apoptosis.
Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology - 1 Jul 2011
Sancho-Martínez Sandra M, Piedrafita F Javier, Cannata-Andía Jorge B, López-Novoa José M, López-Hernández Francisco J
Abstract excerpt
Cisplatin is a chemotherapeutic drug whose cytotoxicity is key to its therapeutic and side effects. Nephrotoxicity, mainly due to renal tubular injury, poses its most important therapeutic limitation. Tubular necrosis is derived from epithelial cell death by apoptosis and necrosis in the proximal and distal tubuli. The mode of cell death has been related to drug concentration, with necrosis occurring with high...
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