Research Article

Atorvastatin Downregulates In Vitro Methyl Methanesulfonate and Cyclophosphamide Alkylation-Mediated Cellular and DNA Injuries

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Effect of cotreatment with atorvastatin (AVA) after 24 h of coexposure with alkylating agents. HepG2 cells were coexposed to AVA from 0.1 to 100 μM. It is possible to observe that AVA induced a significant cytoprotective effect in hepatic cells coexposed to (a) 20 μM MMS at 1.0 and 10.0 μM. The same effect was observed against (b) 100 μM CPA from 0.1 to 10.0 μM ( versus the negative control and ; ; versus CPA or MMS only; in triplicate; one-way ANOVA followed by a Tukey’s post hoc test).
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