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Arsenic sulfide as a potential anti‑cancer drug

  • Authors:
    • Wenping Ding
    • Lian Zhang
    • Sungkyoung Kim
    • Wei Tian
    • Yingying Tong
    • Jianwen Liu
    • Yong Ma
    • Siyu Chen
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    Affiliations: Department of Oncology, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200092, P.R. China, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering and Shanghai Key Laboratory of New Drug Design, School of Pharmacy, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, P.R. China, Department of Dermatology, Shanghai Third People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 201999, P.R. China
    Copyright: © Ding et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License [CC BY_NC 3.0].
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       https://doi.org/10.3892/mmr.2014.2838
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Arsenic sulfide (As4S4) is the main component of realgar, which is widely used in traditional Chinese medicine. Previous studies have shown the beneficial effects of As4S4 in the treatment of hematological malignant diseases, however, its effects on solid tumors have yet to be fully elucidated. The current study aimed to explore the anti‑cancer effect and the mechanism of As4S4 on solid tumors in vitro and in vivo. Cells from four human solid tumor cell lines, including the MKN45 gastric cancer cell line, the A375 malignant melanoma cell line, the 8898 pancreatic carcinoma cell line and the HepG2 hepatocellular carcinoma cell line, were treated with As4S4 in vitro, using the L02 embryonic liver cells as a control. The efficacy of As4S4 was assessed in vivo using mice implanted with Lewis lung carcinoma cells. The results of the current study demonstrated that As4S4 significantly inhibited the proliferation of solid tumor cells in a dose‑ and time‑dependent manner, but produced a less pronounced effect on L02 cells. Additionally, As4S4 was observed to induce apoptosis (including morphological changes and an enhanced sub‑G1 population), which was accompanied by the activation of caspase‑3 and ‑9. Furthermore, treatment with As4S4 significantly inhibited the growth of implanted tumors in mice. These results suggest that As4S4 possesses potent in vitro and in vivo antitumor activity via the induction of cell apoptosis.
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Ding, W., Zhang, L., Kim, S., Tian, W., Tong, Y., Liu, J. ... Chen, S. (2015). Arsenic sulfide as a potential anti‑cancer drug. Molecular Medicine Reports, 11, 968-974. https://doi.org/10.3892/mmr.2014.2838
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Ding, W., Zhang, L., Kim, S., Tian, W., Tong, Y., Liu, J., Ma, Y., Chen, S."Arsenic sulfide as a potential anti‑cancer drug". Molecular Medicine Reports 11.2 (2015): 968-974.
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Ding, W., Zhang, L., Kim, S., Tian, W., Tong, Y., Liu, J., Ma, Y., Chen, S."Arsenic sulfide as a potential anti‑cancer drug". Molecular Medicine Reports 11, no. 2 (2015): 968-974. https://doi.org/10.3892/mmr.2014.2838
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Ding W, Zhang L, Kim S, Tian W, Tong Y, Liu J, Ma Y and Chen S: Arsenic sulfide as a potential anti‑cancer drug. Mol Med Rep 11: 968-974, 2015.
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Ding, W., Zhang, L., Kim, S., Tian, W., Tong, Y., Liu, J. ... Chen, S. (2015). Arsenic sulfide as a potential anti‑cancer drug. Molecular Medicine Reports, 11, 968-974. https://doi.org/10.3892/mmr.2014.2838
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Ding, W., Zhang, L., Kim, S., Tian, W., Tong, Y., Liu, J., Ma, Y., Chen, S."Arsenic sulfide as a potential anti‑cancer drug". Molecular Medicine Reports 11.2 (2015): 968-974.
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Ding, W., Zhang, L., Kim, S., Tian, W., Tong, Y., Liu, J., Ma, Y., Chen, S."Arsenic sulfide as a potential anti‑cancer drug". Molecular Medicine Reports 11, no. 2 (2015): 968-974. https://doi.org/10.3892/mmr.2014.2838
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