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LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA
Volume 54, Issue 11, Pages 2517-2522Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.3109/10428194.2013.781170
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Acute myeloid leukemia; celecoxib; doxorubicin; cell cycle; apoptosis
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Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitors have been shown to enhance antitumor activity of therapeutic agents in a variety of solid tumor cells. However, this has not been well established in hematopoietic tumors, especially in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). This study was designed to investigate the effects of the combination of celecoxib, a specific COX-2 inhibitor, and doxorubicin on cell growth and apoptosis in human leukemia cells. Co-treatment with celecoxib and doxorubicin significantly inhibited cell growth and induced cell apoptosis in the acute leukemia cell line HL60 and primary AML cells. The growth inhibition effect was accompanied by down-regulation of the expression of cyclin E and cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (CDK2), the key regulators of cell cycle progression, which was associated with arrest of cells at G0/G1 phase. The pro-apoptotic effect was accompanied by down-regulation of the expression of survivin, an inhibitor of apoptosis protein, which mediated anti-apoptosis in AML cells. These results provide the first evidence that the growth inhibitory and pro-apoptotic effects of celecoxib and doxorubicin on AML cells are synergistic.
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