“…Evidence has been accumulating that CDDP exerts its renal and cochlear toxicity at least in part through oxidative stress, generating reactive oxygen species (ROS; free radicals) and interfering with the antioxidant defense systems of these organs (Appenroth et al, , 1995Clerici et al, 1996;Gabaizadeh et al, 1997;Hannemann and Baumann, 1988;Kameyama and Gemba, 1991;Kopke et al, 1997;Ravi et al, 1995aRavi et al, , 1995bSugihara et al, 1987;Sugihara and Gemba, 1986;Zhang and Lindup, 1994). This notion is supported by successful attempts at ameliorating the nephrotoxic or ototoxic side effects in experimental animals in vivo by antioxidant therapy with D-methionine (Campbell et al, 1996(Campbell et al, , 1999Li et al, 2001;Reser et al, 1999), diethyldithiocarbamate acid (Rybak et al, 1995), and sodium thiosulfate (Iwamato et al, 1984;Saito et al, 1997).…”