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Paul Kurywchak1, Raghu Kalluri1.
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Chemotherapy is a predominant strategy to treat cancer and is often associated with toxicities like severe diarrhea that puts patients at additional risk and can hinder treatment strategies. Lian et al. recently explored the immune-mediated mechanisms of Irinotecan-induced diarrhea in colorectal cancer and found that double-stranded DNA in small vesicles can launch inflammation pathways in immune cells through the cytosolic DNA sensor AIM2.Entities:
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Year: 2017 PMID: 28524163 PMCID: PMC5518880 DOI: 10.1038/cr.2017.74
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell Res ISSN: 1001-0602 Impact factor: 25.617