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Front Pharmacol
December 2024
Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
Background: Multidrug resistance (MDR), mainly caused by ATP-binding cassette transporters (ABCTs) efflux, makes it difficult for many anticancer drugs to treat breast cancer (BC). Phytochemicals can reverse cancer's MDR by modifying ABC transporter expression and function, as well as working synergistically with anticancer drugs to target other molecules. The reversal effect of the isoquinoline alkaloid coptisine (COP) was assessed on four breast cell lines; Two sensitive MCF-7 cell lines with positive estrogen, androgen, progesterone, and glucocorticoid receptors, as well as MDB-MB-231 cells with negative estrogen, progesterone, and HER2 receptors, and two doxorubicin-resistant cell lines, MCF-7/ADR and MDB-MB-231/ADR.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Mol Sci
December 2024
Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković"-National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade, Bulevar Despota Stefana 142, 11108 Belgrade, Serbia.
Prenatal glucocorticoid overexposure alters the developmental program of fetal reproductive organs and results in numerous changes that can lead to various disorders later in life. Moderate fructose consumption during childhood and adolescence may impair the development and function of reproductive organs. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of prenatal dexamethasone (Dx) exposure in combination with postnatal fructose overconsumption on testicular development and function in fetal and adult male rat offspring.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTriple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive subtype of breast cancer. Among TNBC subtypes, the luminal androgen receptor (LAR) subtype expresses high levels of androgen receptor (AR) and generally responds poorly to neoadjuvant chemotherapy. AR has been reported as a promising therapeutic target for the LAR TNBC subtype.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Cell Mol Med
November 2024
Department of Urology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Clinically, most prostate cancer (PCa) patients inevitably progress to castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) with poor prognosis after androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), including abiraterone, the drug of choice for ADT. Therefore, it is necessary to explore the resistance mechanism of abiraterone in depth. Genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9 knockout technology was used to screen CRPC cell line 22Rv1 for abiraterone-resistant genes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCancer Cell Int
November 2024
Experimental Pharmacology Unit, Istituto Nazionale Tumori-IRCCS-Fondazione G. Pascale, Naples, 80131, Italy.
Background: Despite advancements in therapeutic approaches, including taxane-based chemotherapy and androgen receptor-targeting agents, metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) remains an incurable tumor, highlighting the need for novel strategies that can target the complexities of this disease and bypass the development of drug resistance mechanisms. We previously demonstrated the synergistic antitumor interaction of valproic acid (VPA), an antiepileptic agent with histone deacetylase inhibitory activity, with the lipid-lowering drug simvastatin (SIM). This combination sensitizes mCRPC cells to docetaxel treatment both in vitro and in vivo by targeting the cancer stem cell compartment via mevalonate pathway/YAP axis modulation.
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