Muthanna Medical Journal
Volume 7, Issue 1, 2020 Page 20-26
http://dx.doi.org/10.52113/1/2410-4590/2020-20-26
Research Article 
Dalia Abdalkader Shakur1, Suhad Faisal Hatem Al-Mugdadi2*, Inam S. Arif1
* Correspondence author: suhadhatim@yahoo.com
1Mustansiriyah University/ College of Pharmacy/ Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Iraq, 2Mustansiriyah University/ College of Pharmacy/Department of Clinical Laboratories sciences /Iraq
Received 25 May 2020; accepted 10 June 2020; published 13 June 2020
Received 25 May 2020; accepted 10 June 2020; published 13 June 2020
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Abstract
Platinum analogs includes cisplatin, oxaliplatin and carboplatin. Cisplatin is a chemotherapeutic drug with excellent success in the management of human malignancies. Molecular mechanism of action related to its capacity to crosslink of DNA purine bases; also, by interfere with DNA repair, leading to DNA break, and consequently lead to apoptosis in cancer cells. Cisplatin also found to have immunomodulatory properties besides its cytotoxic effect.
Keywords:Cisplatin, Cancer, Molecular and Immunomodulatory effects, Genes repair