Resveratrol Induces Apoptosis in Pancreatic Cancer Cells

Overview

Journal Chin Med J (Engl)

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2011 Jul 12

PMID 21740780

Citations 23

Authors

Jia-Hua Zhou

Hai-Yan Cheng

Ze-Qian Yu

Dao-Wei He

Zheng Pan

De-Tong Yang

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Abstract

Background: Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal human cancers with a very low survival rate of 5 years. Conventional cancer treatments including surgery, radiation, chemotherapy or combinations of these show little effect on this disease. Several proteins have been proved critical to the development and the progression of pancreatic cancer. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of resveratrol on apoptosis in pancreatic cancer cells.

Methods: Several pancreatic cancer cell lines were screened by resveratrol, and its toxicity was tested by normal pancreatic cells. Western blotting was then performed to analyze the molecular mechanism of resveratrol induced apoptosis of pancreatic cancer cell lines.

Results: In the screened pancreatic cancer cell lines, capan-2 and colo357 showed high sensitivity to resveratrol induced apoptosis. Resveratrol exhibited insignificant toxicity to normal pancreatic cells. In resveratrol sensitive cells, capan-2 and colo357, the activation of caspase-3 was detected and showed significant caspase-3 activation upon resveratrol treatment; p53 and p21 were also detected up-regulated upon resveratrol treatment.

Conclusion: Resveratrol provides a promising anti-tumor strategy to fight against pancreatic cancer.

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