Tegillarca granosa extract Haishengsu (HSS) suppresses expression of mdr1, BCR/ABL and sorcin in drug-resistant K562/ADM tumors in mice

Autor: Bin Zhang, M. Hou, SG Chen, JZ Liu, Lexin Wang, GY Li, M. Yang
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Advances in medical sciences. 58(1)
ISSN: 1898-4002
Popis: To evaluate the effect of Haishengsu (HSS), a protein extract from Tegillarca granosa, on multidrug-resistance genes mdr1, BCR/ABL and sorcin in transplanted tumors.Mice were inoculated subcutaneously with a drug resistant leukemia cell line K562/ADM. Tumor-bearing animals were divided into control, adriamycin, HSS and combination therapy (adriamycin plus HSS) groups. Flow cytometry was used to detect apoptosis of tumor cells, and RT-PCR was used to evaluate the expression of mdr1, BCR/ABL and sorcin.The apoptosis rate in the high (71.8%), medium (72.3%) and low doses HSS group (72.4%) was higher than in control (1.2%, p0.01), adriamycin (34.4%, p0.05) or combination therapy group (46.4%, p0.05). The mean optical density of mdr1, BCR/ABL and sorcin in HSS groups was lower than in control, adriamycin and combination therapy group (p0.01). The optical density of the three genes in high HSS group was lower than in medium and low HSS group (p0.01).Haishengsu promotes apoptosis of drug-resistant K562/ADM tumors in mice in a dose-dependent manner. The pro-apoptotic effect of Haishengsu may be related to a reduced expression of multidrug-resistance genes mdr1, BCR/ABL and sorcin.
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