scholarly journals A water soluble parthenolide analog suppresses in vivo tumor growth of two tobacco-associated cancers, lung and bladder cancer, by targeting NF-κB and generating reactive oxygen species

2010 ◽  
Vol 128 (10) ◽  
pp. 2481-2494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajasubramaniam Shanmugam ◽  
Praveen Kusumanchi ◽  
Hitesh Appaiah ◽  
Liang Cheng ◽  
Peter Crooks ◽  
...  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 1148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun-Chen Yang ◽  
Wei-Yun Wang ◽  
Feng-Huei Lin ◽  
Chun-Han Hou

Conventional photodynamic therapy (PDT) is limited by its penetration depth due to the photosensitizer and light source. In this study, we developed X-ray induced photodynamic therapy that applied X-ray as the light source to activate Ce-doped CaCO3 (CaCO3:Ce) to generate an intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) for killing cancer cells. The A549 cell line was used as the in vitro and in vivo model to evaluate the efficacy of X-ray-induced CaCO3:Ce. The cell viability significantly decreased and cell cytotoxicity obviously increased with CaCO3:Ce exposure under X-ray irradiation, which is less harmful than radiotherapy in tumor treatment. CaCO3:Ce produced significant ROS under X-ray irradiation and promoted A549 cancer cell death. CaCO3:Ce can enhance the efficacy of X-ray induced PDT, and tumor growth was inhibited in vivo. The blood analysis and hematoxylin and eosin stain (H&E) stain fully supported the safety of the treatment. The mechanisms underlying ROS and CO2 generation by CaCO3:Ce activated by X-ray irradiation to induce cell toxicity, thereby inhibiting tumor growth, is discussed. These findings and advances are of great importance in providing a novel therapeutic approach as an alternative tumor treatment.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sahba Kasiri ◽  
Baozhi Chen ◽  
Alexandra N. Wilson ◽  
Annika Reczek ◽  
Simbarashe Mazambani ◽  
...  

AbstractActivation of the Hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway by mutations within its components drives the growth of several cancers. However, the role of Hh pathway activation in lung cancers has been controversial. We demonstrate that the Hh signaling pathway is activated in lung stroma in a paracrine manner. Genetic deletion of Shh in autochthonous murine lung adenocarcinoma had no effect on survival. Early abrogation of the pathway by an anti-SHH/IHH antibody 5E1 led to significantly worse survival with increased tumor and metastatic burden. Loss of IHH by in vivo CRISPR led to more aggressive tumor growth suggesting that IHH, not SHH, activates the pathway in stroma to drive its tumor suppressive effects - a novel role for IHH in the lung. Tumors from mice treated with 5E1 had decreased blood vessel density and increased reactive oxygen species (ROS). Treatment of KP mice with 5E1 and N-acetylcysteine, as a ROS scavenger, decreased tumor ROS levels, inhibited tumor growth and prolonged mouse survival suggesting that increased ROS levels from stromal Hh pathway inhibition spurred lung tumor growth. Thus, IHH induces stromal Hh pathway activation to suppress tumor growth and metastases, in part, by limiting ROS production.


BIOPHYSICS ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 58 (5) ◽  
pp. 712-717 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. I. Zaichkina ◽  
O. M. Rozanova ◽  
A. R. Dyukina ◽  
N. B. Simonova ◽  
S. P. Romanchenko ◽  
...  

Nanomedicine ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (19) ◽  
pp. 2567-2578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyeryeon Oh ◽  
Jin Sil Lee ◽  
Daekyung Sung ◽  
Jin Hyung Lee ◽  
Sang Hyun Moh ◽  
...  

Aim: Prussian blue nanoparticles (PB NPs) have been reported as excellent antioxidant agents owing to their ability to scavenge reactive oxygen species. However, their poor stability in vivo limits their use in biomedical applications. Materials & methods: In this study, we developed chitosan-templated PB NPs using water-soluble chitosan samples with molecular weights ranging from 3 to 100 kDa, which stabilized the PB NPs and improved their antioxidant activity. Results & conclusion: The chitosan-templated PB NPs coordinated with the optimal chitosan molecular weight had uniform sphere-like particles, improved stability and effective scavenging activity of in vitro reactive oxygen species generation in murine fibroblast cells stimulated by oxidative stress agents without any cytotoxicity, implying that they could be promising antioxidant agents.


The Prostate ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 70 (10) ◽  
pp. 1074-1086 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajasubramaniam Shanmugam ◽  
Praveen Kusumanchi ◽  
Liang Cheng ◽  
Peter Crooks ◽  
Sundar Neelakantan ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 147 ◽  
pp. 167-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gang Cheng ◽  
Jing Pan ◽  
Radoslaw Podsiadly ◽  
Jacek Zielonka ◽  
Alexander M. Garces ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhuochao Liu ◽  
Hongyi Wang ◽  
Chuanzhen Hu ◽  
Chuanlong Wu ◽  
Jun Wang ◽  
...  

AbstractIn this study, we identified the multifaceted effects of atezolizumab, a specific monoclonal antibody against PD-L1, in tumor suppression except for restoring antitumor immunity, and investigated the promising ways to improve its efficacy. Atezolizumab could inhibit the proliferation and induce immune-independent apoptosis of osteosarcoma cells. With further exploration, we found that atezolizumab could impair mitochondria of osteosarcoma cells, resulting in increased release of reactive oxygen species and cytochrome-c, eventually leading to mitochondrial-related apoptosis via activating JNK pathway. Nevertheless, the excessive release of reactive oxygen species also activated the protective autophagy of osteosarcoma cells. Therefore, when we combined atezolizumab with autophagy inhibitors, the cytotoxic effect of atezolizumab on osteosarcoma cells was significantly enhanced in vitro. Further in vivo experiments also confirmed that atezolizumab combined with chloroquine achieved the most significant antitumor effect. Taken together, our study indicates that atezolizumab can induce mitochondrial-related apoptosis and protective autophagy independently of the immune system, and targeting autophagy is a promising combinatorial approach to amplify its cytotoxicity.


2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (18) ◽  
pp. 4556 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna Zielinska-Blizniewska ◽  
Przemyslaw Sitarek ◽  
Anna Merecz-Sadowska ◽  
Katarzyna Malinowska ◽  
Karolina Zajdel ◽  
...  

Obesity is a complex disease of great public health significance worldwide: It entails several complications including diabetes mellitus type 2, cardiovascular dysfunction and hypertension, and its prevalence is increasing around the world. The pathogenesis of obesity is closely related to reactive oxygen species. The role of reactive oxygen species as regulatory factors in mitochondrial activity in obese subjects, molecules taking part in inflammation processes linked to excessive size and number of adipocytes, and as agents governing the energy balance in hypothalamus neurons has been examined. Phytotherapy is the traditional form of treating health problems using plant-derived medications. Some plant extracts are known to act as anti-obesity agents and have been screened in in vitro models based on the inhibition of lipid accumulation in 3T3-L1 cells and activity of pancreatic lipase methods and in in vivo high-fat diet-induced obesity rat/mouse models and human models. Plant products may be a good natural alternative for weight management and a source of numerous biologically-active chemicals, including antioxidant polyphenols that can counteract the oxidative stress associated with obesity. This review presents polyphenols as natural complementary therapy, and a good nutritional strategy, for treating obesity without serious side effects.


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