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Endocr Connect. 2017 Oct;6(7):469-478. doi: 10.1530/EC-17-0138. Epub 2017 Aug 08.

Amifostine does not protect thyroid cancer cells in DNA damaging .

Endocrine connections

Joanna Klubo-Gwiezdzinska, John Costello, Kirk Jensen, Aneeta Patel, Rok Tkavc, Douglas Van Nostrand, Kenneth D Burman, Leonard Wartofsky, Vasyl Vasko

Affiliations

  1. National Institute of HealthNIDDK, Office 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
  2. Division of EndocrinologyDepartment of Medicine, Medstar Washington Hospital Center, Washington Hospital Center, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
  3. Department of PediatricsUniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
  4. Department of PathologyUniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
  5. Department of PediatricsUniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA [email protected].

PMID: 28790138 PMCID: PMC5597971 DOI: 10.1530/EC-17-0138

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Amifostine is a potent scavenger of reactive oxygen species that is used for the salivary gland protection during therapy with radioactive iodine for thyroid cancer. There are no data on the potential effect of amifostine on thyroid cancer cells.

METHODS: We investigated the effects of the active form of amifostine (WR-1065) on the response of thyroid cancer cells to treatment with DNA-damaging agents. WR-1065 was examined in human thyroid cancer cell lines (FTC133, TPC1, BCPAP and C643) and embryonic fibroblast cells NIH3T3. DNA damage was induced by exposure to H

RESULTS: We demonstrated the selective action of WR-1065 (0.1 mM), which prevented oxidative stress-induced DNA damage in fibroblasts, but did not protect thyroid cancer cells from DNA damage and apoptosis documented by caspase-3 and PARP cleavage after exposure to H

CONCLUSIONS: Our data show that amifostine has no protective effect on thyroid cancer cells against DNA-damaging agents

© 2017 The authors.

Keywords: DNA damage; amifostine; radiation; thyroid cancer

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