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JOURNAL OF NEURO-ONCOLOGY
Volume 60, Issue 2, Pages 135-141Publisher
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DOI: 10.1023/A:1020604705831
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ceramide; glioblastoma cell line; Fas; FLIP; apoptosis
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Ceramide is a physiologic regulator of growth and differentiation in mammalian cells. In this study, the relationship between ceramide and FLICE inhibitory protein (FLIP) in the induction of apoptosis in glioblastoma cell lines was investigated. We found that LN215 cells were slightly more sensitive to Fas-mediated apoptosis than LN319 cells, which were more sensitive to ceramide than LN215 cells. FLIP was expressed in LN319 and LN215 cells constitutively, and this expression decreased with treatment of ceramide in LN215 cells, which might cause LN215 cells to be more sensitive to Fas-mediated apoptosis at lower level stimulation. In LN319 cells FLIP levels were not modified by ceramide treatment and the level of cell death induced by anti-Fas antibody was not affected. Our results suggest that FLIP may be down-regulated by low levels of ceramide in LN215 cells, which causes LN215 cells to be more sensitive to Fas-mediated apoptosis, whereas LN319 cells remain resistant.
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