“…While the mechanisms of accumulation of chemotherapy agents in dorsal root ganglion neurons is unknown, some evidence shows that the accumulation of platinum derivates may be due to high expression of specific membrane transporters, such as the organic anion-transporting polypeptides (OATPs), and the organic cation transporter (OCT) that are responsible for platinum transport (Gregg et al, 1992;Screnci et al, 2000;Fujita et al, 2019;. Studies in animals and humans have also shown that the prolonged use of chemotherapeutic agents such as vincristine, oxaliplatin, cisplatin, carboplatin, paclitaxel, bortezomib and ixabepilone can result in degeneration of large, myelinated axons and the loss of intraepidermal nerve fibers (Sahenk et al, 1994;Neijt et al, 2000;Parmar et al, 2003;Boyette-Davis et al, 2013;Boehmerle et al, 2014;Ebenezer et al, 2014;Yamamoto et al, 2015a;Geisler et al, 2016;Turkiew et al, 2017;Malacrida et al, 2019;Ogihara et al, 2019). The extent of neuronal damage has been correlated with different degrees of neuropathy severity, but the precise underlying mechanisms by which demyelination and degeneration of peripheral nerves contribute to CIPN remain unclear (Colvin, 2019;Malacrida et al, 2019).…”