Abstract:
:Curcumin possesses anti-cancer effects. In the current study, we tested the effect of curcumin on cell proliferation, viability, apoptosis, cell cycle phases, and activation of the PI3K/Akt pathway in the renal cell carcinoma (RCC) cell line RCC-949. We observed that cell proliferation and viability were markedly inhibited by curcumin, while cell apoptosis was promoted. The latter effect was associated with increased expression of Bcl-2 and diminished expression of Bax (both: mRNA and protein). The cells treated with curcumin increasingly went into cell cycle arrest, which was likely mediated by diminished expression of cyclin B1, as seen in curcumin-treated cells. In addition, curcumin decreased activation of the PI3K/AKT signaling pathway. In conclusion, our results demonstrate that curcumin exerts anti-cancer effects by negative modulation of the PI3K/AKT signaling pathway and may represent a promising new drug to treat RCC.
journal_name
Cell Biochem Biophysjournal_title
Cell biochemistry and biophysicsauthors
Zhang H,Xu W,Li B,Zhang K,Wu Y,Xu H,Wang J,Zhang J,Fan R,Wei Jdoi
10.1007/s12013-015-0694-5subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2015-12-01 00:00:00pages
681-6issue
3eissn
1085-9195issn
1559-0283pii
10.1007/s12013-015-0694-5journal_volume
73pub_type
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