https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/496677
標題: | Lovastatin, a 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitor, induces apoptosis and differentiation in human anaplastic thyroid carcinoma cells | 作者: | CHIH-YUAN WANG Zhong W.-B. TIEN-CHUN CHANG Lai S.-M. Tsai Y.-F. |
公開日期: | 2003 | 卷: | 88 | 期: | 7 | 起(迄)頁: | 3021-3026 | 來源出版物: | Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism | 摘要: | Although only 1% of differentiated thyroid cancers transform into anaplastic thyroid cancer, this disease is always fatal. Differentiation therapy may provide a new therapeutic approach to increasing the survival rate in such patients. 3-Hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors are reported to promote cellular apoptosis and differentiation in many cancer cells; these effects are unrelated to lipid reduction. Recently, we found that TNFα induces cytomorphological differentiation in anaplastic thyroid cancer cells and increases thyroglobulin expression; however, TNF is cytotoxic for normal human tissue. The aim of this study was to determine whether lovastatin, an HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor, could induce apoptosis and differentiation in anaplastic thyroid cancer cells. Anaplastic thyroid cancer cells were treated with lovastatin, then examined for cellular apoptosis and cytomorphological differentiation by DNA fragmentation, phosphatidylserine externalization/flow cytometry, and electron microscopy. Thyroglobulin levels in the culture medium were also measured. Our results showed that at a higher dose (50 μM), lovastatin induced apoptosis of anaplastic thyroid cancer cells, whereas at a lower dose (25 μM), it promoted 3-dimensional cytomorphological differentiation. It also induced increased secretion of thyroglobulin by anaplastic cancer cells. Our results show that lovastatin not only induces apoptosis, but also promotes redifferentiation in anaplastic thyroid cancer cells, and suggest that it and other HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors merit further investigation as differentiation therapy for the treatment of anaplastic thyroid cancer. |
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ISSN: | 0021-972X | DOI: | 10.1210/jc.2002-021834 | SDG/關鍵字: | DNA fragment; hydroxymethylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitor; mevinolin; phosphatidylserine; thyroglobulin; tumor necrosis factor alpha; anaplastic thyroid carcinoma; apoptosis; article; cancer cell culture; cell differentiation; cell structure; controlled study; culture medium; cytotoxicity; drug mechanism; flow cytometry; human; human cell; malignant transformation; priority journal; protein expression; protein secretion; survival rate; thyroid carcinoma; Apoptosis; Carcinoma; Cell Differentiation; Cell Survival; Humans; Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors; Lovastatin; Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; Protein Isoprenylation; Radioimmunoassay; Thyroglobulin; Thyroid Neoplasms; Tumor Cells, Cultured |
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