KOREAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY & PHARMACOLOGY
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2024
·Vol. 28
·期 3
·219-227
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IF 1.6
Peiyu Lin,Xiyue Yang,Linghui Wang,Xin Zou,Lingli Mu,Cangcang Xu,Xiaoping Yang
Bladder cancer remains the 10th most common cancer worldwide. In recent years, metformin has been found to have potential anti-bladder cancer activity while high concentration of IC 50 at millimolar level is needed, which could not be reached by regular oral administration route. Thus, higher efficient agent is urgently demanded for clinically treating bladder cancer. Here, by conjugating artesunate to metformin, a novel artesunate-metformin dimer triazine derivative AM2 was designed and synthesized. The inhibitory effect of AM2 on bladder cancer cell line T24 and the mechanism underlying was determined. Anti-tumor activity of AM2 was assessed by MTT, cloning formation and wound healing assays. Decreasing effect of AM2 on lipogenesis was determined by oil red O staining. The protein expressions of Clusterin, SREBP1 and FASN in T24 cells were evaluated by Western blotting. The results show that AM2 significantly inhibited cell proliferation and migration at micromolar level, much higher than parental metformin. AM2 reduced lipogenesis and down-regulated the expressions of Clusterin, SREBP1 and FASN. These results suggest that AM2 inhibits the growth of bladder cancer cells T24 by inhibiting cellular lipogenesis associated with the Clusterin/SREBP1/FASN signaling pathway.
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肿瘤学
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药理学
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细胞生物学
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STEROIDS
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2014
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IF 2.716
Bin Yu,Ping-Ping Qi,Xiao-Jing Shi,Li-Hong Shan,De-Quan Yu,Hong-Min Liu
A series of novel steroidal pyran–oxindole hybrids were efficiently synthesized in a single operation through the vinylogous aldol reaction of vinyl malononitrile 3 with substituted isatins involving the construction of C–C and C–O bonds. Some compounds displayed moderate to good cytotoxicity against T24, SMMC-7721, MCF-7 and MGC-803 cells. Compounds 4f and 4i were more potent than 5-Fu against T24 and MGC-803 cells with the IC 50 values of 4.43 and 8.45 μM, respectively. Further mechanism studies indicated that compound 4i induced G2/M arrest and early apoptosis in a concentration- and time-dependent manner.
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药物化学
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肿瘤学
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合成化学
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Small
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2015
·Vol. 11
·期 47
·6338-6346
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IF 8.368
Jing Tan,Chuanyu Sun,Ke Xu,Changchun Wang,Jia Guo
5-Aminolevulinic acid (ALA) is a widely used photodynamic therapy (PDT) prodrug in the clinic. It can be metalized to the photosensitizer PpIX, which produces toxic singlet oxygen to kill cancer cells upon visible light irradiation. Herein, a core/shell-structured vehicle is designed to comprise magnetite colloidal supraparticles (MCSPs) as cores and ALA-Zn II coordination polymers as shells (Fe 3 O 4 @ALA-Zn II ) for target pro-photosensitizer delivery. The coordination polymers with 2D layered structures are locally deposited on the MCSPs by the complexation of the ALA and Zn II ions, and are readily controlled by varying the feed precursors and reaction temperatures. The maximum conjugated ALA amount is up to 17%. The Fe 3 O 4 @ALA-Zn II microspheres exhibit pH-sensitive release of ALA in acidic environment and rapid magnetic responsiveness. Cytotoxicity results demonstrate that Fe 3 O 4 @ALA-Zn II shows a significant inhibitory effect to T24 cells and is nontoxic to 293T normal cells as exposed to the 630 nm visible light for a very short time, which may due to the selective accumulation of ALA-induced PpIX in T24 cancer cells. Compared to the ALA used alone, the coordination polymer form is more efficient because of the bioactivity of incorporated Zn ions despite underlying the same apoptosis mechanism as ALA agent.
研究领域:
材料科学
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纳米技术
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药学
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肿瘤学
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生物医学工程
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CELL BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS
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2014
·Vol. 71
·期 3
·1349-1356
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IF 2.38
Jin Di,Cao Ming,Mu Xin,Yang Guoliang,Xue Wei,Huang Yiran,Chen Haige
Catalpol is an iridoid glucoside extracted from the traditional Chinese medicinal plant called Rehmannia glutinosa , and it is reported to possess a variety of pharmacological activities. The goal of this research was to explore the effect of catalpol on the human bladder cancer cells T24. The cells were treated for different durations with various concentrations of catalpol. Then the viability, mobility, and invasiveness of the cells were determined by MTT assay and flow cytometry, respectively. Catalpol was found to significantly suppress the proliferation, migration, and invasiveness of T24 bladder cancer cells in a dose- and time-dependent manner. The results also revealed that catalpol promoted apoptosis and caused the cell-cycle arrest at G2/M phase. Furthermore, the catalpol-mediated apoptosis was found to involve the modulation of PI3K/Akt pathway and inhibit the expression of anti-apoptotic B cell lymphoma-2 (Bcl-2) family proteins. Also, the expressions of Bcl-2 proapoptotic effectors, Bcl-2-associated X protein, and Bcl-2 associated death promoter were up-regulated in the cells treated with catalpol. The enzymes involved in the ultimate process of apoptosis, active caspase-3 and poly ADP ribose polymerase were elevated, and the latter was observed to be cleaved, indicating that catalpol-accelerated cell apoptosis involved a caspase-dependent pathway. These results suggest that catalpol might serve to be a promising therapeutic agent for the treatment of human bladder cancer.
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肿瘤学
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药理学
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细胞生物学
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分子生物学
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