1. Cinnamaldehyde enhances apoptotic effect of oxaliplatin and reverses epithelial-mesenchymal transition and stemnness in hypoxic colorectal cancer cells.
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Wu CE, Zhuang YW, Zhou JY, Liu SL, Wang RP, and Shu P
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- Acrolein pharmacology, Animals, Antineoplastic Agents pharmacology, Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic pharmacology, Cell Movement, Cell Proliferation, Colorectal Neoplasms metabolism, Colorectal Neoplasms pathology, Female, Humans, Hypoxia physiopathology, Male, Mice, Mice, Inbred BALB C, Mice, Nude, Neoplastic Stem Cells metabolism, Neoplastic Stem Cells pathology, Tumor Cells, Cultured, Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays, Acrolein analogs & derivatives, Apoptosis drug effects, Colorectal Neoplasms drug therapy, Drug Resistance, Neoplasm drug effects, Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition drug effects, Neoplastic Stem Cells drug effects, Oxaliplatin pharmacology
- Abstract
Oxaliplatin has been widely applied in clinical tumor chemotherapy, the treatment failure of which mainly blames on low susceptibility resulted from intrinsic or acquired drug resistance in tumor cells. Microenvironmental hypoxia is one of the important pathological features of solid tumors, which is closely related to the radiochemotherapy tolerance and poor prognosis. Cinnamaldehyde is extracted from Cinnamomum cassia with inhibiting effect against kinds of tumors. In this study, we demonstrated that hypoxia reduced the sensitivity to oxaliplatin in colorectal cancer (CRC) cells via inducing EMT and stemness. Nonetheless, cinnamaldehyde increased the curative effect of oxaliplatin by promoting apoptosis both in vitro and in vivo. Mechanistically, cinnamaldehyde and oxaliplatin synergistically reversed hypoxia-induced EMT and stemness of CRC cells and suppressed hypoxia-activated Wnt/β-catenin pathway synergistically. These consequences uncovered the potential therapeutic value of cinnamaldehyde and provided novel ideas on improving the sensitivity of oxaliplatin in CRC therapy., (Copyright © 2019. Published by Elsevier Inc.)
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- 2019
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