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BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER
卷 86, 期 3, 页码 443-448出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6600079
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apoptosis cell cycle; ciprofloxacin; colorectal cancer; proliferation; caspase
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Efficacy of chemotherapy in advanced stages of colorectal tumours is limited. The quinolone antibiotic ciprofloxacin was recently shown to inhibit growth and to induce apoptosis in human bladder carcinomas cells. We investigated the effect of ciprofloxacin on colon carcinoma lines in vitro. CC-531, SW-403 and HT-29 color carcinoma and HepG2 hepatoma cells control cells) were exposed to ciprofloxacin. Proliferation was assessed by bromodeoxyundine-incorporation into DNA and apoptosis was measured by flow cytometry after propidium iodide or JC-1 staining, Expression of anti-apoptic Bcl-2 and pro-apoptotic Bax was analyzed by semiquantitative Western blot analysis and activity of caspases 3, 8 and 9 by substrate-cleavage assays. Ciprofloxacin suppressed DNA synthesis of all colon carcinoma cells time- and dose-dependently, whereas the hepatoma cells remained unaffected, Apoptosis reached its maximum between 200 and 500 mug ml(-1). This was accompanied by an upregulation of Bax and of the activity of caspases 3, 8 and 9, and paralleled by a decrease of the mitochondral membrane potential. Ciprofloxacin decreases proliferation and induces apoptosis of colon carcinoma cells, possibly in part by blocking mitochordrial DNA synthesis. Therefore, qualification of ciprofloxacin as adjunctive agent for colorectal cancer should be evaluated.
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