Ethoxyquin: Dog Food Preservative May Prevent Chemotherapy Side Effect

Working with cells in vitro and in mice, researchers have discovered that an antioxidant called ethoxyquin, a chemical commonly used as a dog food preservative, may prevent the kind of painful nerve damage found in the hands and feet of four out of five cancer patients taking the chemotherapy drug Taxol. Ethoxyquin is a Food and Drug Administration-approved preservative and was shown in the new experiments to bind to certain cell proteins in a way that limits their exposure to the damaging effects of Taxol, the researchers say. read more

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