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Glutathione is key to the synergistic enhancement of doxorubicin and etoposide by polyphenols in leukaemia cell lines
Recently published in Nature: Cell Death and Discovery,
Mahbub et al.1 have demonstrated that polyphenols can
synergistically enhance the action of the topoisomerase II
inhibitors: doxorubicin and etoposide in leukaemia cells. A
reduction of glutathione (GSH) was strongly associated with
sensitising cells to the pro-apoptotic effects of polyphenols when used in combination with doxorubicin or etoposide. Importantly, when polyphenols and topoisomerase II inhibitors were combined, it was possible to induce a
synergistic decrease in cell proliferation (measured as ATP
levels), cell-cycle arrest and induction of apoptosis in
leukaemia cell lines