Department of Pharmacology, Roslyn High School and Old Westbury State University of New York, United States
Research Article
Improving Doxorubicin-Chemotherapy Treatment with Luteolin and Resveratrol: A Novel Synthetically Engineered Secondary Metabolite "TDB-13" Created with Luteolin and Resveratrol
Author(s): Jessie Dong*
First-line chemotherapy drug doxorubicin, the most potent chemotherapy drug to date, is used in virtually all
chemotherapy treatment plans. 92% of cancer patients are treated with chemotherapy yet for the past six decades,
chemotherapy has had a failure rate of 90%. An overwhelming majority of the failures are attributed to the side
effects of doxorubicin. No existing treatment exists that mitigates doxorubicin’s repercussions without significantly
depleting its therapeutic efficacy.
While research indicates that secondary metabolites are improved when working with other chemicals/compounds
and that luteolin and resveratrol specifically have protective effects on heart tissue (which could alleviate a major
side effect: cardiotoxicity), no research has tested any secondary metabolites on any chemotherapy drug. To evaluate
therapeutic efficacy: luteoli.. View more»