ABT‑737 and pictilisib synergistically enhance pitavastatin‑induced apoptosis in ovarian cancer cells
| Autor: | Alan Richardson, Elizabeth de Wolf, Christopher De Wolf |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0301 basic medicine
Cancer Research Programmed cell death Statin Oncogene medicine.drug_class business.industry Cancer Articles Pharmacology Cell cycle medicine.disease 03 medical and health sciences 030104 developmental biology 0302 clinical medicine Oncology Apoptosis 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis medicine Pitavastatin Ovarian cancer business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Oncology Letters. |
| ISSN: | 1792-1082 1792-1074 |
| DOI: | 10.3892/ol.2017.7516 |
| Popis: | There is considerable interest in redeploying drugs for use in combination with other oncology therapeutics. The single-agent activity of statins in ovarian cancer has been widely reported, however the drug concentration required to cause cell death is considerably higher than that achieved in patients receiving statin treatment for hypercholesterolemia. Unfortunately, statins can cause myopathy when administered in high doses. One solution to this is to identify drugs that could be used in combination with statins to reduce the dose required and those that may potentially reduce the incidence of adverse side effects. When the BH3 mimetic ABT-737, or the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase inhibitor pictilisib, were combined with pitavastatin in cell growth assays using Ovcar-3 and Igrov-1 cells, the drug combinations were more effective than pitavastatin alone. In support of this, ABT-737 or pictilisib markedly increased cell death induced by pitavastatin in several ovarian cancer cell lines. The drugs were also synergistic in apoptosis assays. These observations suggested that either BH3 mimetics or pictilisib in combination with pitavastatin could be used in a subset of ovarian tumours, particularly those sensitive to BH3 mimetics, and phosphatase and tensin homolog inhibition, in the treatment of ovarian cancer. |
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