Thus, it was found that treatment with DPG in melanoma cells decreased PARP-1 (0.55 vs. 1.02 AUs, p-value = 0.001) and the anti-apoptotic gene, BAX (1.91 vs. 1.05 AUs, p-value = 0.09) expression (Figure 1F). Here, PARP1 is linked to melanoma.