Cardiotoxic drugs Herceptin and doxorubicin inhibit cardiac microvascular endothelial cell barrier formation resulting in increased drug permeability

Cardiotoxicity induced by anti-cancer therapeutics is a severe, and potentially fatal, adverse reaction of the heart in response to certain drugs. Current in vitro approaches to assess cardiotoxicity have focused on analysing cardiomyocytes. More recently it has become apparent that non-cardiomyocyt...

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Main Authors: Wilkinson, Emma L., Sidaway, James E., Cross, Michael J.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: The Company of Biologists Ltd 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5087671/