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Pristimerin overcomes adriamycin resistance in breast cancer cells through suppressing Akt signaling

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    • Gui'e Xie
    • Xinpei Yu
    • Huichao Liang
    • Jingsong Chen
    • Xuewei Tang
    • Shaoqing Wu
    • Can Liao
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    Affiliations: KingMed School of Laboratory Medicine, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510182, P.R. China, Cancer Center, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510315, P.R. China, Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510623, P.R. China
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       https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2016.4335
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Abstract

Breast cancer remains a major public health problem worldwide. Chemotherapy serves an important role in the treatment of breast cancer. However, resistance to chemotherapeutic agents, in particular, multi‑drug resistance (MDR), is a major cause of treatment failure in cancer. Agents that can either enhance the effects of chemotherapeutics or overcome chemoresistance are urgently needed for the treatment of breast cancer. Pristimerin, a quinonemethide triterpenoid compound isolated from Celastraceae and Hippocrateaceae, has been shown to possess antitumor, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and insecticidal properties. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether pristimerin can override chemoresistance in MCF‑7/adriamycin (ADR)‑resistant human breast cancer cells. The results demonstrated that pristimerin indeed displayed potent cytocidal effect on multidrug‑resistant MCF‑7/ADR breast cancer cells, and that these effects occurred through the suppression of Akt signaling, which in turn led to the downregulation of antiapoptotic effectors and increased apoptosis. These findings indicate that use of pristimerin may represent a potentially promising approach for the treatment of ADR-resistant breast cancer.
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Xie G, Yu X, Liang H, Chen J, Tang X, Wu S and Liao C: Pristimerin overcomes adriamycin resistance in breast cancer cells through suppressing Akt signaling. Oncol Lett 11: 3111-3116, 2016.
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Xie, G., Yu, X., Liang, H., Chen, J., Tang, X., Wu, S., & Liao, C. (2016). Pristimerin overcomes adriamycin resistance in breast cancer cells through suppressing Akt signaling. Oncology Letters, 11, 3111-3116. https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2016.4335
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Xie, G., Yu, X., Liang, H., Chen, J., Tang, X., Wu, S., Liao, C."Pristimerin overcomes adriamycin resistance in breast cancer cells through suppressing Akt signaling". Oncology Letters 11.5 (2016): 3111-3116.
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Xie, G., Yu, X., Liang, H., Chen, J., Tang, X., Wu, S., Liao, C."Pristimerin overcomes adriamycin resistance in breast cancer cells through suppressing Akt signaling". Oncology Letters 11, no. 5 (2016): 3111-3116. https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2016.4335
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Xie G, Yu X, Liang H, Chen J, Tang X, Wu S and Liao C: Pristimerin overcomes adriamycin resistance in breast cancer cells through suppressing Akt signaling. Oncol Lett 11: 3111-3116, 2016.
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Xie, G., Yu, X., Liang, H., Chen, J., Tang, X., Wu, S., & Liao, C. (2016). Pristimerin overcomes adriamycin resistance in breast cancer cells through suppressing Akt signaling. Oncology Letters, 11, 3111-3116. https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2016.4335
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Xie, G., Yu, X., Liang, H., Chen, J., Tang, X., Wu, S., Liao, C."Pristimerin overcomes adriamycin resistance in breast cancer cells through suppressing Akt signaling". Oncology Letters 11.5 (2016): 3111-3116.
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Xie, G., Yu, X., Liang, H., Chen, J., Tang, X., Wu, S., Liao, C."Pristimerin overcomes adriamycin resistance in breast cancer cells through suppressing Akt signaling". Oncology Letters 11, no. 5 (2016): 3111-3116. https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2016.4335
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