Mitochondrial cholesterol makes response to chemotherapy difficu...

(IDIBAPS - Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer) IIBB-CSIC-IDIBAPS researchers have demonstrated that the increase of cholesterol concentration in the mitochondrial membrane makes the action of chemotherapy difficult in cellular hepatocarcinoma.

According to these results, drugs such as statins could sensitise cancer cells against chemotherapy since they diminish the level of mitochondrial cholesterol.


 

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