Abstract:
:Glioma is a kind of lethal malignant tumor, and lacks efficient therapies. Combination therapy has been claimed to be a promising approach to combat cancer, due to its increased anti-cancer effects and reduced side effects. This study aimed to investigate the anti-cancer effect and mechanism of combining imatinib with irinotecan or its active metabolite 7-ethyl-10-hydroxycamptothecin (SN-38). First, we found that this drug combination exerted synergistic antitumor effects against glioma in vitro and in vivo. In addition, flow cytometry results proved that the SN-38-induced apoptosis was further enhanced by imatinib, and similar results were observed by determining the protein expression levels of apoptosis biomarkers. Interestingly, p53 expression was elevated by the SN-38 mono-treatment, and was not further increased after the co-treatment; besides, knockdown of p53 could only reduce the expression of cleaved-PARP partially, and weaken the enhanced proliferation inhibition induced by SN-38 plus imatinib, indicating that there might be other factors involved in the synergistic effects besides p53. Meanwhile, the markedly elevated p21 expression was observed only in the combination group, instead of the mono-treated groups. According to the results of p21 knockdown, we found that p21 was also required for the synergistic inhibitory effects. Moreover, we explored and ruled out the possibility of imatinib enhancing the sensitivity of irinotecan by inhibiting drug efflux pumps. Thus, our findings collectively suggest that combining irinotecan with imatinib could be a promising new strategy to fight against glioma.
journal_name
Eur J Pharmacoljournal_title
European journal of pharmacologyauthors
Lu J,Hu Y,Qian R,Zhang Y,Yang X,Luo Pdoi
10.1016/j.ejphar.2020.173022subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2020-05-05 00:00:00pages
173022eissn
0014-2999issn
1879-0712pii
S0014-2999(20)30114-Xjournal_volume
874pub_type
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