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Unfortunately, the majority of patients are diagnosed at later stages because HCC does not elicit obvious symptoms during its early incidence. Consequently, most individuals escape the first-line HCC treatments and are treated with chemotherapy. Regrettably, the therapeutic outcomes for those patients are usually poor because of the development of multidrug resistance phenomena. Furthermore, most anti-HCC therapies cause severe undesired side effects that notably interfere with the life quality of such patients. Accordingly, there is an important need to search for an alternative therapeutic drug or adjuvant which is more efficient with safe or even minimal side effects for HCC treatment. Melatonin was recently reported to exert intrinsic antitumor activity in different cancers. However, the regulatory pathways underlying the antitumor activity of melatonin are poorly understood in resistant liver cells. Furthermore, a limited number of studies have addressed the therapeutic role of melatonin in HCC cells resistant to doxorubicin chemotherapy. In this study, we investigated the antitumor effects of melatonin in doxorubicin-resistant HepG2 cells and explored the regulatory pivotal targets underlying these effects. To achieve our aim, an MTT assay was used to calculate the 50% inhibitory concentration of melatonin and evaluate its antiproliferative effect on resistant cells. Additionally, qRT-PCR was used to quantify genes having a role in drug resistance phenotype (ABCB1, ABCC1, ABCC2, ABCC3, ABCC4, ABCC5, and ABCG2); apoptosis (caspases-3, and -7, Bcl2, Bax, and p53); anti-oxidation (NRF2); expression of melatonin receptors (MT1, MT2, and MT3); besides, programmed death receptor PD-1 gene. The active form of the caspase-3 enzyme was estimated by ELISA. A human inflammatory antibody membrane array was employed to quantify forty inflammatory factors expressed in treated cells. We observed that melatonin inhibited the proliferation of doxorubicin-resistant HepG2 cells in a dose-dependent manner after 24-h incubation time with a calculated IC<jats:sub>50<\/jats:sub> greater than 10\u00a0mM (13.4\u00a0mM), the expression levels of genes involved in drug resistance response (ABCB1, ABCC1, ABCC5, and ABCG2) were downregulated. Also, the expression of caspase-3, Caspase-7, NRF2, and p53 genes were expressed at higher levels as compared to control (DMSO-treated cells). An active form of caspase-3 was confirmed by ELISA. Moreover, the anti-inflammatory effect of melatonin was detected through the calculated fold change to control which was reduced for various mediators that have a role in the inflammation pathway. 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