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  • * Flow cytometry and gene expression analysis were used to measure cell apoptosis and survivin levels after treating K562/A02 cells with DNR, BrTet, alone or in combination.
  • * Results indicated that the combination therapy significantly increased cell death and lowered survivin expression, suggesting it could overcome drug resistance in leukemia cells and hinting that survivin could be a treatment target for multidrug resistance in blood cancers.

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The aim of this study was to investigate the potential benefit of combination therapy with 5-bromotetrandrine (5-BrTet) and daunorubicin (DNR) on chronic leukemia. The apoptosis of K562/A02 cells treated by DNA, BrTet and BrTet combined with DNR for 48 hours was detected by flow cytometry; the expressions levels of survivin mRNA and protein K562/A02 cells treated by DNR, BrTet and BrTet combined with DNR and in untreated K562 cells for 48 hours were measured by RT-PCR and Western blot respectively. The results showed that the combination of BrTet with DNR increased apoptotic rate of K562/A02, down-regulated the expression levels of survivin mRNA and protein in K562/A02 cells as compared with blank control and cells treated by BrTet or DNR alone, the survivin expression in K562/A02 cells was higher than that in K562 cells. It is concluded that the combination of BrTet with DNR can effectively reverse the multidrug resistance of K562/A02 cells, promote the apoptosis of K562/A02 cells, the mechanism of which may be related with down-regulation of survivin expression. Survivin may be a target for the treatment of MDR in hematopoietic malignancies.

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