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FREE RADICAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
Volume 194, Issue -, Pages 1-11Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2022.11.028
Keywords
Vitamin C; Plasma -conditioned medium; Glioblastoma cells; ROS; AQP3
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This study investigated the therapeutic combination of vitamin C and plasma-conditioned medium on glioblastoma cells in culture and in xenograft models. The combination treatment reduced cell viability and proliferation, while promoting apoptosis, with stronger effects than either treatment alone. Mechanistic insights were provided, suggesting the potential of this combination therapy against glioblastoma and other potential therapies.
Glioblastoma is the most lethal intracranial malignant tumor, for which the five-year overall survival rate is approximately 5%. Here we explored the therapeutic combination of vitamin C and plasma-conditioned medium on glioblastoma cells in culture and as subcutaneous or intracranial xenografts in mice. The combination treatment reduced cell viability and proliferation while promoting apoptosis, and the effects were significantly stronger than with either treatment on its own. Similar results were obtained in the two xenograft models. Vitamin C appeared to upregulate aquaporin-3 and enhance the uptake of extracellular H2O2, while the com-bination treatment increased intracellular levels of reactive oxygen species including H2O2 and activated the JNK signaling pathway. The cytotoxic effects of the combination treatment were partially reversed by the specific JNK signaling inhibitor SP600125. Our results suggest that the combination of vitamin C and plasma-conditioned medium has therapeutic potential against glioblastoma, and they provide mechanistic insights that may help investigate this and other potential therapies in greater depth.
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