A Mixture of Chemopreventives Modifying the Oxidative State and Inducing Programmed Cell Death in Human and Hamster Oral Carcinoma Cells

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 175-190
Author(s):  
Joel L. Schwartz



Embryonal carcinoma cells, with embryonic (ECaE) or trophectodermal (ECaT) potential, have been used in a colony assay to determine regulatory mechanisms in the blastocyst. The mechnism that regulates ECaE and results in chimera formation is dependent upon a soluble factor in blastocoele fluid and contact with trophectoderm. Two mechanisms contribute to the regulation of ECaT: one involves a factor in blastocoele fluid and the other contact with either trophectoderm or inner cell mass which results in differentiation of the cells into trophectoderm, and the other involves the killing of at least 40% of the cells by blastocoele fluid alone. This cytotoxic activity probably causes the programmed cell death that occurs in the inner cell mass during blastulation as it loses the potential to differentiate into trophectoderm. A toxic activity similar to that of normal blastocysts has been obtained from embryoid bodies. This activity is caused by amine oxidase-dependent catabolism of polyamines, and it is postulated that programmed cell death in the embryo and chalone activity in the adult may have similar mechanisms.



2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
DA-ZHI FU ◽  
YING CHENG ◽  
HUI HE ◽  
HAI-YANG LIU ◽  
YONG-FENG LIU


2020 ◽  
Vol Volume 13 ◽  
pp. 9159-9167
Author(s):  
Junwei Hu ◽  
Zeyu Wang ◽  
Jinjun Wang ◽  
Yicheng Jian ◽  
Jiarun Dai ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 428-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahendra Pal Singh ◽  
Ki Hun Park ◽  
Tejinder Pal Khaket ◽  
Sun Chul Kang

Background: Colon cancer is the second most common cancer to cause death worldwide. About half of colon cancers patients require adjuvant therapy to control relapse following surgical resection. Therefore, abolition of tumor cell progression using an effective chemotherapeutic agent holds a feasible approach to treat patients suffering from colon cancer. In the present study, we evaluated the effects of geranylated flavonoid CJK-7, isolated from Paulownia tomentosa on HCT-116 human colon carcinoma cells. Materials and Methods: The effects of CJK-7 as an active component on HCT-116 cells programmed cell death and its underlying molecular mechanism were examined by using MTT assay, morphological assessment, H2DCFDA staining, Fura-2AM staining, Hoechst-33342 staining, comet assay, Acridine orange staining, mitochondrial membrane potential (ΔΨm) assay and Western blot analyses. Results and Conclusion: The results revealed that, CJK-7 was capable of inducing caspase-dependent cell death events in cancer cells. Moreover, it was involved in up-regulation of autophagy signaling as evidenced by enhanced expression of LC3I/II. We also noticed stimulated expression of endoplasmic reticulum stress markers and phosphorylation of c-Jun NH2-terminal kinase (JNK), which was associated with up-regulated expression of p53, PUMA, Atg5 and Beclin-1, and down-regulation of Bcl-2, stressing the interaction of ROS on the aforementioned signaling. Furthermore, exposure to ROS scavengers (N-acetyl-l-cysteine (NAC), and JNK-specific inhibitor SP600125) significantly reversed the effects of CJK-7 by down-regulating apoptosis and autophagy signatures in HCT-116 cancer cells. Collectively our findings clarify the ROS-dependent regulatory effect of CJK-7 on programmed cell death signaling events in HCT-116 cancer cells while depicting its virile pro-oxidant capacity.



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