“…However, the use of DDP is limited because of its toxicity to normal tissues (Rosenberg, 1985). DDP is highty mutagenic, causing sister-chromatid exchange and chromosomal aberrations in cultured mammalian cells, mouse bone marrow cells, and peripheral blood lymphocytes of patients (Kliesch and Adler, 1987;Adler and El-Tarras, 1989;Ohe et al, 1990;Osanto et al, 1991;Krishnaswamy and Dewey, 1993). The generation of free radicals is believed to be an important mechanism in the development of DDP toxicity (Masuda et al, 1994;Baliga et al, 1998).…”