Cai-yu GAN, Zuo-wen ZHENG, Bing-jie LIANG, et al. Mechanism of Total Flavonoids of Ampelopsis Grossedentata in Inhibiting Liver Cancer by PI3K/Akt/p53 Pathway[J]. Chinese journal of experimental traditional medical formulae, 2019, 25(12): 90-96.
DOI:
Cai-yu GAN, Zuo-wen ZHENG, Bing-jie LIANG, et al. Mechanism of Total Flavonoids of Ampelopsis Grossedentata in Inhibiting Liver Cancer by PI3K/Akt/p53 Pathway[J]. Chinese journal of experimental traditional medical formulae, 2019, 25(12): 90-96. DOI: 10.13422/j.cnki.syfjx.20190422.
Mechanism of Total Flavonoids of Ampelopsis Grossedentata in Inhibiting Liver Cancer by PI3K/Akt/p53 Pathway
To study inhibitory effect of total flavonoids from
Ampelopsis grossedentata
(TF) on transplanted tumors of human hepatocellular carcinoma in nude mice
and predict that its mechanism may be related to relevant factors regulating phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase (PI3K)/protein kinases B(Akt)/p53 pathway in apoptosis.
Method:
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The nude mice transplanted BEL-7404 hepatoma model was established and divided into model group
5-fluorouracil (5-FU) group (1.0 g·L
-1
) and TF (30
15
7.5 g·L
-1
) groups. Nude mice were put to death after two weeks of administration. The tumor tissues were excised
and tumor inhibition rate (IR) and relative tumor proliferation rate (T/C) were calculated. Reverse transcription PCR(RT-PCR) was used to detect PI3K
Akt1
p53 gene(p53)
Caspase-3
B cell lymphoma/lewkmia-2 (Bcl-2)
Bcl-2 associated X protein (Bax) mRNA expressions
immunohistochemical method was used to detect expressions of relevant proteins PI3K
Akt1
p53
Caspase-3
Bcl-2
Bax.
Result:
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The establishment of xenograft tumor in mice showed that TF was administered orally once per day for two consecutive weeks. IRs were 53.26%
35.94%
and 26.74%
respectively. T/Cs were 59.74%
69.66%
and 84.82%
respectively. RT-PCR experiments showed that compared with model group
when TF concentration was 30 g·L
-1
mRNA expressions of PI3K
Akt1
and Bcl-2 were significantly down-regulated
and mRNA expressions of tumor suppressor genes p53
Capsase-3
and Bax were significantly up-regulated. Immunohistochemical method results showed that compared with model group
at TF concentrations of 30
15 g·L
-1
all PI3K
Akt1
Bcl-2 protein expressions were significantly down-regulated
while p53
Capsase-3
Bax protein expressions were significantly increased.
Conclusion:
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TF has an obvious anti-liver cancer activity
in vivo
. Its mechanism may be correlated with up-regulation of expressions of p53
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