水蛭素联合阿霉素对人卵巢癌细胞株耐药性的实验观察

目的探讨水蛭素联合阿霉素对人卵巢癌细胞生长的影响。方法通过细胞培养后绘制生长曲线,了解联合用药对抑制癌细胞增殖及诱导凋亡的作用。结果水蛭素联合阿霉素具有杀伤人卵巢癌细胞的效果。结论水蛭素有可能作为临床抗癌和抑癌治疗的潜在辅助用药。     

紫杉醇联合表阿霉素新辅助化疗治疗三阴性乳腺癌的临床疗效评价及其对Ki-67、p53、P-gp和GST-π的影响

目的:研究紫杉醇联合表阿霉素新辅助化疗治疗三阴性乳腺癌的临床疗效及对Ki-67、p53、P-糖蛋白(P-gp)和谷胱甘肽转移酶(GST-π)的影响。方法:选取2010年6月~2012年6月我院收治的84例三阴乳腺癌患者,根据患者入院顺序分为观察组和对照组,42例每组。对照组使用表阿霉素联合环磷酰胺完成化疗,观察组使用紫杉醇联合表阿霉素完成新辅助化疗。比较两组患者临床疗效,治疗前后Ki-67、p53、P-gp和GST-π的表达情况。结果:治疗后,观察组总的缓解率显著高于对照组[76.19%(32/42)比45.24%(19/42)](P0.05)。化疗前,两组患者Ki-67、p53、P-gp和GST-π阳性表达率比较无统计学意义(P0.05);化疗后,观察组患者的Ki-67、p53、P-gp和GST-π阳性表达率较化疗前显著降低(P0.05),但对照组的Ki-67、p53、P-gp和GST-π阳性表达率和化疗前相比无明显变化(P0.05),观察组的Ki-67、p53、P-gp和GST-π阳性表达率显著低于对照组(P0.05)。观察组和对照组的不良反应率比较差异无统计学意义(P0.05)。结论:紫杉醇联合表阿霉素新辅助化疗治疗三阴性乳腺癌的疗效确切,其能有效降低Ki-67、p53、P-gp和GST-π的表达。     

芹菜素对MDA-MB-231细胞增殖及侵袭转移的影响

目的:研究芹菜素对乳腺癌MDA-MB-231细胞增殖及侵袭转移能力的影响,探讨其作用 机制.方法:芹菜素处理MDA-MB-231细胞,MTT法及流式法检测细胞增殖、粘附和周期变化 ;Millicell小室检测新生血管形成、侵袭转移能力的改变;免疫细胞化学检测Bcl-2、Bax 、cyclinB1、VEGF、MMP-9、E-cd蛋白的表达差异.结果:芹菜素明显抑 制MDA-MB-231细胞增殖,诱导细胞凋,G2/M期细胞比例由4.79%增至36.12%(P＜0.05 );细胞的黏附、新生血管形成 能力均显著降低;侵袭转移穿膜细胞数明显低于对照组,分别由88.67、106.33降至45.67、 68(P＜0.05);Bcl-2、cyclinB1、VEGF、MMP-9蛋白表达明显降低;Bax,E-cd的表达则增 加.结论:芹菜素有效抑制MDA-MB-231细胞增殖,阻滞细胞于G2/M期, 诱导细胞凋亡;抑制 细胞粘附、新生血管形成、侵袭与转移的能力,其机制与抑制Bcl-2、cyclinB1、VEGF、MMP 9表达,促进Bax、E-cd表达有关.     

汉防己甲素联合顺铂对乳腺癌细胞的作用

目的:汉防己甲素和顺铂联合作用乳腺癌细胞,来提高癌细胞对顺铂的敏感性.方法:运用原子力显微镜对乳腺癌细胞表面的超微结构进行表征;MTr法和流式细胞术检测细胞的生长抑制率和细胞周期变化.结果:顺铂和汉防己甲素分别作用乳腺癌细胞48h IC50值为26.33μmoL/l和5.6μmok/l;联合用药组的IC50值为汉防己甲素2.5μmol/L和顺铂13.32μmol/l,在低浓度的联合用药作用乳腺癌细胞24h细胞膜表面结构被破坏,产生孔洞,作用48h被严重破坏使细胞周期在S比例增加为51.7%±0.30%.结论:提高了癌细胞对抗癌药物的敏感性,联合用药通过改变了细胞膜的结构对癌细胞进行有效杀伤,抑制肿瘤细胞生长.     

虫草素高产菌株的筛选及不同添加物对虫草素产量的影响研究

通过对14株蛹拟青霉菌株进行摇瓶液体发酵培养试验,筛选虫草素产量最高的蛹虫草菌株,并确定了虫草素的最佳收获期;比较8种营养添加物对虫草发酵过程中虫草素积累的影响,筛选出最佳的营养添加物,以提高液体发酵生产虫草素的产量。结果表明：蛹虫草CM001号菌株的虫草素产量最高,蛹虫草菌在第10天细胞量达到最大值20.44mg/mL,虫草素含量在第13天达到最大值73.81mg/L,70%以上的虫草素分布在发酵液中。其中分别添加腺苷、腺嘌呤、丙氨酸、L-天冬氨酸、甘氨酸5种物质,对虫草素合成的促进作用均较明显,均能有效提高蛹虫草液体发酵虫草素的产量,特别是添加1g/L的腺嘌呤能使10号菌株的虫草素产量提高7.09倍。     

蛹虫草中虫草素的提取及纯化工艺研究

目的:优化从蛹虫草中提取、纯化虫草素的方法并鉴定其纯度.方法和结果:通过3种提取方法的比较,确定了以恒温水浴法作为虫草素规模化提取方法,最佳提取条件为45℃、80％乙醇;同时,确定了ML-7大孔树脂纯化虫草素的工艺,采用该工艺虫草素纯度可达到92％以上,并对纯化虫草素和标准品进行了比较鉴定.结论:该方法提取、纯化的虫草素纯度高,适于虫草素的规模化生产.     

MiRNA在乳腺癌转移中的作用

乳腺癌是女性高发的恶性肿瘤之一,远处转移是患者致死的最重要原因。目前乳腺癌转移的具体机制尚未明确。乳腺癌转移相关微RNA(microRNA,miRNA)的发现,为我们研究乳腺癌转移提供了新的思路。miRNA参与包括乳腺癌细胞的生长、凋亡、迁移、侵袭等肿瘤发生、发展过程,进而实现对乳腺癌转移的调控。有些miRNA在乳腺癌转移过程中起促进作用;有些则起抑制作用;还有一些miRNA的功能存在争议。本文将主要着眼于近年来发现的这几类miRNA在乳腺癌转移中所起的作用,并对其将来在乳腺癌诊断、预后判断及治疗中的应用做一综述。     

Galectin-1的4T1乳腺癌过表达细胞的构建及其对增殖和转移的影响

探查galectin-1促癌作用的广泛性,并为进一步研究该基因在三阴性乳腺癌中促癌转移的分子作用机制提供必要的实验工具和依据。采用生物信息学方法去分析多种癌症病人样本中该基因的表达情况,及其与乳腺癌病人总体生存率的关系;通过慢病毒转染去构建galectin-1过表达的4T1细胞株,并检测该基因对细胞增殖(CCK8检测法)、迁移和侵袭(Transwell检测法)的影响。研究结果显示,galectin-1在乳腺癌和淋巴癌等多种癌症中呈现高表达状态,且与乳腺癌病人的总体生存率呈负相关。同时,galectin-1过表达三阴性乳腺癌4T1细胞株被成功构建。Galectin-1的过表达能够显著促进4T1肿瘤细胞的增殖、迁移和侵袭。这些都显示了galectin-1是一个对乳腺癌等多种癌症具有促癌作用,并能促进三阴性乳腺癌细胞体外增殖和转移的因子。     

大孔树脂分离纯化虫草素及其抗纤维化作用

利用大孔树脂分离富集北冬虫夏草发酵液中的虫草素。通过筛选可知NKA-Ⅱ型大孔树脂对虫草素的吸附与解吸效果最好。发酵液经树脂吸附6 h后,再以4倍树脂体积的50%乙醇解吸3 h,所得样品虫草素含量达31.5%,经反复结晶后得到纯度>98%的虫草素。结果表明:虫草素可明显抑制TGF-β1引起的人胚肺成纤维细胞α-SMA蛋白表达量的增加,并表现出一定的浓度依赖性,提示虫草素可能具有抑制肺纤维化活性。     

二甲双胍联合阿霉素应用对人乳腺癌细胞增殖和凋亡的影响

目的：观察二甲双胍联合阿霉素应用对人乳腺癌细胞MDA-MB-231增殖和凋亡的影响。方法：MTT法分别检测二甲双胍、阿霉素和二甲双胍联合阿霉素对MDA-MB-231细胞生长的抑制作用;平板克隆实验检测二甲双胍联合阿霉素对MDA-MB-231细胞克隆形成能力的影响;流式细胞仪检测二甲双胍联合阿霉素对MDA-MB-231细胞凋亡的影响。结果：二甲双胍和阿霉素分别对MDA-MB-231细胞生长有抑制作用,二甲双胍联合阿霉素应用对MDA-MB-231细胞生长的抑制作用更加显著,并且随着药物浓度的增加而增加;二甲双胍联合阿霉素应用与单药相比能够明显降低MDA-MB-231细胞克隆形成率,并且促进细胞凋亡。结论：二甲双胍联合阿霉素应用与单药相比能够显著抑制人乳腺癌细胞MDA-MB-231细胞的增值,促进其凋亡,可见两药联用对肿瘤细胞的杀伤具有协同性。     

miR-135b promotes proliferation and metastasis by targeting APC in triple-negative breast cancer

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most aggressive breast cancer subtype. The aim of our study was to investigate the functional role of microRNA-135b (miR-135b) in TNBC. A real-time polymerase chain reaction assay was used to quantify miR-135b expression levels in 90 paired TNBC tissue and adjacent normal tissue samples. Wound-healing and transwell assays were performed to evaluate the effects of miR-135b expression on the migration and invasion of TNBC cells. Luciferase reporter and western blot analyses were used to verify whether the mRNA encoding APC is a major target of miR-135b. In the current study, we found that miR-135b was highly expressed in TNBC tissue and cells, and the expression levels were correlated with lymph node status and TNM stage. In TNBC cells, the ectopic expression of miR-135b promoted cell proliferation and invasion in vitro. In addition, our study proved that the overexpression of miR-135b significantly suppressed APC expression by targeting the 3′-untranslated region of APC, whereas enhanced APC expression could partially abrogate the miR-135b-mediated promotion of carcinogenic traits in TNBC cells. Taken together, our study demonstrated that miR-135b expression promoted the proliferation and invasion of TNBC by downregulating APC expression, indicating that miR-135b may serve as a promising target for the treatment of TNBC patients.     

Nodal expression in triple-negative breast cancer: Cellular effects of its inhibition following doxorubicin treatment

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) represents an aggressive cancer subtype characterized by the lack of expression of estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR) and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2). The independence of TNBC from these growth promoting factors eliminates the efficacy of therapies which specifically target them, and limits TNBC patients to traditional systemic neo/adjuvant chemotherapy. To better understand the growth advantage of TNBC – in the absence of ER, PR and HER2, we focused on the embryonic morphogen Nodal (associated with the cancer stem cell phenotype), which is re-expressed in aggressive breast cancers. Most notably, our previous data demonstrated that inhibition of Nodal signaling in breast cancer cells reduces their tumorigenic capacity. Furthermore, inhibiting Nodal in other cancers has resulted in improved effects of chemotherapy, although the mechanisms for this remain unknown. Thus, we hypothesized that targeting Nodal in TNBC cells in combination with conventional chemotherapy may improve efficacy and represent a potential new strategy. Our preliminary data demonstrate that Nodal is highly expressed in TNBC when compared to invasive hormone receptor positive samples. Treatment of Nodal expressing TNBC cell lines with a neutralizing anti-Nodal antibody reduces the viability of cells that had previously survived treatment with the anthracycline doxorubicin. We show that inhibiting Nodal may alter response mechanisms employed by cancer cells undergoing DNA damage. These data suggest that development of therapies which target Nodal in TNBC may lead to additional treatment options in conjunction with chemotherapy regimens – by altering signaling pathways critical to cellular survival.     

LncRNA AWPPH and miRNA-21 regulates cancer cell proliferation and chemosensitivity in triple-negative breast cancer by interacting with each other

Long–non-coding RNAs (lncRNA) AWPPH promotes the progression of liver and bladder cancer, indicating its oncogenic role. The current study aimed to explore the involvement of AWPPH in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). In the current study, we found that plasma levels of lncRNA AWPPH and microRNA-21 (miRNA-21) were upregulated in patients with TNBC than in healthy controls, and the upregulation of plasma lncRNA AWPPH and miRNA-21 distinguished early-stage patients with TNBC from healthy controls. Plasma levels of lncRNA AWPPH and miRNA-21 were significantly and positively correlated in both patients with TNBC and healthy controls. LncRNA AWPPH and miRNA-21 overexpression led to promoted cancer cells proliferation and improved cancer cell viability under carboplatin treatment, while lncRNA AWPPH small interfering RNA (siRNA) silencing played an opposite role. In addition, miRNA-21 overexpression attenuated the effects of lncRNA AWPPH siRNA silencing on of cancer cell behaviors. LncRNA AWPPH overexpression led to upregulated miRNA-21 in TNBC cells, while miRNA-21 overexpression also led to significantly upregulated lncRNA AWPPH expression. Therefore, lncRNA AWPPH and miRNA-21 may regulate cancer cell proliferation and chemosensitivity in TNBC by interacting with each other.     

TQFL12, a novel synthetic derivative of TQ,inhibits triple-negative breast cancer metastasis and invasion through activating AMPK/ACC pathway

Thymoquinone (TQ) has been reported as an anti-tumour drug widely studied in various tumours, and its mechanism and effect of which has become a focus of current research. However, previous studies from our laboratory and other groups found that TQ showed weak anti-tumour effects in many cancer cell lines and animal models. Therefore, it is necessary to modify and optimize the structure of TQ to obtain new chemical entities with high efficiency and low toxicity as candidates for development of new drugs in treating cancer. Therefore, we designed and synthesized several TQ derivatives. Systematic analysis, including in vitro and in vivo, was conducted on a panel of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) cells and mouse model to demonstrate whether TQFL12, a new TQ derivative, is more efficient than TQ. We found that the anti-proliferative effect of TQFL12 against TNBC cells is significantly stronger than TQ. We also demonstrated TQFL12 affects different aspects in breast cancer development including cell proliferation, migration, invasion and apoptosis. Moreover, TQFL12 inhibited tumour growth and metastasis in cancer cell–derived xenograft mouse model, with less toxicity compared with TQ. Finally, mechanism research indicated that TQFL12 increased AMPK/ACC activity by stabilizing AMPKα, while molecular docking supported the direct interaction between TQFL12 and AMPKα. Taken together, our findings suggest that TQFL12, as a novel chemical entity, possesses a better inhibitory effect on TNBC cells and less toxicity in both in vitro and in vivo studies. As such, TQFL12 could serve as a potential therapeutic agent for breast cancer.     

虫草素对肺癌细胞生长及迁移的影响

探讨虫草素对非小细胞肺癌细胞株H1781细胞凋亡及迁移的影响及作用机制。培养H1781细胞并分组,对照组用不含药物的培养基处理,虫草素组用含有10、20、30和40 μmol/L虫草素处理,处理24 h后测定细胞活力,通过显微镜观察细胞形态学,HE染色观察虫草素对细胞整体的影响,细胞免疫荧光技术检测细胞中MMP-9和DAPI核染色情况观察细胞凋亡,Western blotting检测凋亡等相关蛋白表达。与对照组相比,虫草素处理24 h后,H1781细胞系活力显著降低;细胞数量明显减少;HE染色观察发现随着虫草素浓度增加,细胞数量及细胞集团明显变少,免疫荧光技术检测发现药物处理后细胞凋亡明显促进;划痕实验发现虫草素明显降低细胞迁移能力;Western blotting实验中Bax、cleaved caspase-3蛋白表达明显上调,MMP-9、Bcl-2蛋白表达明显下调。虫草素对肺癌H1781细胞迁移有抑制作用、对凋亡有促进作用,推测其作用机制为上调促凋亡蛋白表达、下调抗凋亡蛋白表达。     

Zyxin as a potential cancer prognostic marker promotes the proliferation and metastasis of colorectal cancer cells

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a leading cause of cancer death. This study was conducted to investigate the functions and mechanisms of Zyxin (ZYX) in CRC. Multiomics analysis associated ZYX with CRC metastasis. ZYX expression levels were increased in human CRC tissues and related to shorter recurrence-free survival. Knockdown of ZYX expression resulted in inhibition of cell growth, invasion, and migration in vitro and in vivo. Comprehensive analysis of gene microarray analysis showed that ZYX may activate the pathway of NUPR1 and JNK, inhibit CST5, regulate focal adhesion (FA), and affect epithelial–mesenchymal transition in CRC cells. Results of gene microarray and membrane protein isobaric tags with relative and absolute quantitation labeling mass spectrometry found ten differentially expressed genes, which were associated with ZYX activity. Furthermore, real-time polymerase chain reaction was used to validate the expression patterns of selected genes in the integrative analysis. Taken together, our findings provide the first evidence that decreased expression level of ZYX impairs CRC cell proliferation and metastasis probably via the FA pathway.     

Proliferation of human breast cancer cells and anti-cancer action of doxorubicin and vinblastine are independent of PKC-alpha

Protein kinase C (PKC) has been considered for a potential target of anticancer chemotherapy. PKC-alpha has been associated with growth and metastasis of some cancer cells. However, the role of PKC-alpha in human breast cancer cell proliferation and anticancer chemotherapy remains unclear. In this study, we examined whether alterations of PKC-alpha by phorbol esters and PKC inhibitors could affect proliferation of human breast cancer MCF-7 cells and the cytotoxic effect of chemotherapeutic agents. Exposure for 24 h to doxorubicin (DOX) and vinblastine (VIN) caused a concentration-dependent reduction in proliferation of MCF-7 cells. However, these two anticancer drugs altered cellular morphology and growth pattern in distinct manners. Phorbol 12,13-dibutyrate (PDBu, 100 nM), which enhanced activities of PKC-alpha, increased cancer cell proliferation and attenuated VIN (1 microM)-induced cytotoxicity. These effects were not affected in the presence of 10 nM staurosporine. Phorbol myristate acetate (PMA, 100 nM) that completely depleted PKC-alpha also enhanced cancer cell proliferation and attenuated VIN-induced cytotoxicity. Three potent PKC inhibitors, staurosporine (10 nM), chelerythrine (5 microM) and bisindolylmaleimide-I (100 nM), had no significant effect on MCF-7 cell proliferation; staurosporine and chelerythrine, but not bisindolylmaleimide-I, attenuated VIN-induced cytotoxicity. Moreover, neither phorbol esters nor PKC inhibitors had an effect on cytotoxic effects of DOX (1 microM) on MCF-7 cell proliferation. Thus, these data suggest that MCF-7 cell proliferation or the anti-cancer action of DOX and VIN on breast cancer cells is independent of PKC-alpha.