1. The Promotional Effect of Hollow MnO2 with Brucea Javanica Oil Emulsion (BJOE) on Endometrial Cancer Apoptosis.
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Hu, Qin, Zhang, Shu, Zhu, Jun, Yin, Lina, Liu, Suping, Huang, Xiaowei, and Ke, Guihao
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DRUG delivery systems , *MEDICINAL plants , *VEGETABLE oils , *APOPTOSIS , *ANTINEOPLASTIC agents , *EMULSIONS , *MANGANESE , *ENDOMETRIAL tumors , *CELL proliferation , *PLANT extracts , *CELL lines , *NANOPARTICLES - Abstract
Endometrial cancer (EC) is a common gynecological malignancy worldwide whose therapy mainly depends on chemotherapy. In past years, an increasing number of studies indicate that hollow MnO2 could serve as a nanoplatform in the drug delivery system. The Brucea javanica oil emulsion (BJOE) has been illustrated to play a vital role in cancers. However, knowledge about the combined effect of H-MnO2-PEG/BJOE in endometrial cancer remains ambiguous up to now. In the present work, we prepared a drug-delivery vector H-MnO2-PEG by chemical synthesis and found that H-MnO2-PEG significantly inhibited cell proliferation in endometrial cancer cells. Moreover, the combination of H-MnO2-PEG/BJOE could repress cell proliferation more efficiently and promote cell apoptosis. Mechanistically, we found that BJOE exerted its role as a promoter of endometrial apoptosis by regulating relative protein expressions. In general, the present study demonstrates that H-MnO2-PEG functions as a critical vector in the tumor microenvironment of endometrial cancer and the significant effect of H-MnO2-PEG/BJOE on cancer cells, suggesting a new paradigm for the treatment of endometrial cancer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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