1. C-Phycocyanin elicited antitumor efficacy via cell-cycle arrest, apoptosis induction, and invasion inhibition in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.
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Zhang X, Fan T, Li S, Guan F, Zhang J, and Liu H
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- Animals, Apoptosis drug effects, Cell Cycle Checkpoints drug effects, Cell Line, Tumor, Cell Movement drug effects, Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma genetics, Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma pathology, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic drug effects, Heterografts, Humans, Mice, Neoplasm Invasiveness genetics, Neoplasm Invasiveness pathology, Cell Proliferation drug effects, Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma drug therapy, Neoplasm Proteins genetics, Phycocyanin pharmacology
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Objectives: Mounting evidence has demonstrated that C-Phycocyanin (C-PC) exhibits marked antitumor activity in a wide type of tumors, such as pancreas cancer, breast carcinoma, lung cancer, and colon cancer. The current study aimed to confirm the antitumor efficacy of C-PC in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). Methods: The efficacy of C-PC was evaluated against the proliferation of ESCC cell lines EC9706 and EC1 by CCK-8 kit and in a mice model of ESCC EC9706. Cell cycle and apoptosis were investigated by flow cytometry, and cell invasion was determined via transwell chamber. Protein expression was examined by Western blots. Results: We found that C-PC exhibited anti-proliferation ability in a time-dependent manner and a dose-dependent manner in ESCC EC9706 and EC1 cells. Besides, C-PC markedly arrested cell cycle in the G0/G1 phase, induced cell apoptosis and suppressed cell invasion ability in both EC9706 and EC1 cells ( p < .01). Notably, C-PC evoked the elevations of Bax, PARP, and cleaved-caspase-3 protein, but reduced cyclin D1, CDK4, Bcl-2, MMP-2, and MMP-9 expression levels. Further investigation from in vivo experiment revealed that C-PC displayed significant antitumor efficacy in the xenografted EC9706 model. Conclusions: Our data presented herein suggest C-PC exerts antitumor efficacy in ESCC.
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- 2019
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