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Vitamin C Enhances the Effect of Etoposide to Inhibit Human Prostate Cancer Growth in vitro

Vitamin C+etoposide 복합투여에 의한 전립선 암세포 성장 억제의 상승 효과

  • Lee, Myeong-Seon (Department of Genetic Engineering, College of Science and Engineering, Cheongju University)
  • 이명선 (청주대학교 이공대학 생명.유전.통계학부 유전공학)
  • Published : 2008.09.30
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Abstract

Etoposide (Eto) is chemotherapeutic compounds that is currently used in the treatment of metastatic prostate cancer but new therapeutic agents are needed for the treatment of androgen-independent prostate cancer. The objective of the present study was to determine whether vitamin C (VC), the antioxidant, plays a role in regulating the growth of prostate cancer cell lines and whether VC has synergistic effect to tumor cell killing by chemotherapeutic drugs. Androgen-dependent LNCaP and androgen-independent DU-145 prostate cancer cell lines were used in this study. Both cells presented increase of dose- and time-dependent cytotoxicity in Eto-treated cultures. The combined treatment with Eto and VC significantly increased the percentage of apoptotic cells compared to Eto-treated cells(p<0.05). The present findings demonstrated that VC inhibited the growth of prostate cancer cell lines by Eto-mediated cytotoxicity and induced apoptosis. These results suggest that the chemotherapeutic effect of Eto on prostate cancer can be enhanced by VC.

전립선암은 남성 사망의 주된 원인이 되는 치명적인 질병으로 남성호르몬 의존형과 비의존형이 있다. Etoposide (Eto)는 현재 전립선암을 치료하는 데 사용하고 있으나 남성호르몬 비의존형에는 치료 성공률이 낮아서, 보다 효과적인 치료제 개발이 절실히 요구되어왔다. 본 연구는 항산화제인 vitamin C (VC)가 전립선 암세포에 어떠한 역할을 하는지 알아보고자 남성호르몬 의존형-전립선 암세포인 LNCaP와 비의존형 암세포인 DU-145에 비교적 낮은 농도의 Eto와 VC를 복합처리한 결과, Eto만을 투여한 것과 비교하여 암세포의 성장이 현저하게 억제되었고, apoptosis의 발생률 역시 유의적으로 증가하였다(p<0.05). 이러한 결과는 VC가 전립선암 치료제로 사용하고 있는 Eto의 효과를 증가시킬 수 있음을 강력히 시사하는 것이다.

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