Chloroquine diphosphate is used as an antimalarial drug and also functions to increase sensitivity of tumor cells to radiation and chemotherapy via inducing autophagy [1].
Chloroquine diphosphate has been reported as an adjuvant for radiation and chemotherapy for inducing cell autophagy to anti-cancer cells proliferation or metastasis [2]. The mechanism of chloroquine diphosphate inducing cells autophagy is arresting cells in G1, up-regulates the expression of p27 and p53 while down-regulates the expression of CDK2 and cyclin D1 [3].
Apart from anti-malarial, chloroquine diphosphate also has long been reported functioning in cell apoptosis. Pretreated CNE-2 human nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells with chloroquine diphosphate enhanced ionizing radiation induced cell apoptosis via increasing cells autophagic ratio [4]. When treated with mouse breast cancer 4T1 cells, chloroquine diphosphate treatment inhibited cellular proliferation and viability which resulted in cells apoptosis in a time- and dose- dependent manner [2]. In human colon cancer DLD-1 cells, combination of 5-FU and chloroquine diphosphate could inhibit cells proliferation via inducing autophagy [3].
In mouse model with 4T1 cells subcutaneous xenograft, chloroquine diphosphate treatment significantly inhibited tumor growth and tumor cells metastasis to the lung, thus enhanced the mice survival [2]. In BALB/c mice injected with colon26 cells subcutaneously, chloroquine diphosphate cooperated with 5-FU significantly enhanced the inhibition of tumor growth induced by 5-FU through increasing the ratio of apoptotic cells [5].
磷酸氯喹是一种抗疟药物，并通过诱导自噬增加肿瘤细胞对放疗和化疗的敏感性[1]。
磷酸氯喹已被报道为放疗和化疗的辅助药物，通过诱导细胞自噬抑制癌细胞增殖或转移[2]。磷酸氯喹诱导细胞自噬的机制是阻滞细胞在G1期，上调p27和p53的表达，同时下调CDK2和cyclin D1的表达[3]。
除了抗疟作用外，磷酸氯喹还被报道在细胞凋亡中发挥作用。预先用磷酸氯喹处理CNE-2人鼻咽癌细胞，可以通过增加细胞自噬比率增强电离辐射诱导的细胞凋亡[4]。在处理小鼠乳腺癌4T1细胞时，磷酸氯喹可以抑制细胞增殖和细胞存活率，导致细胞以时间和剂量依赖的方式发生凋亡[2]。在人结肠癌DLD-1细胞中，5-FU和磷酸氯喹的联合使用可以通过诱导自噬抑制细胞增殖[3]。
在4T1细胞皮下异种移植的小鼠模型中，磷酸氯喹的治疗显著抑制了肿瘤生长和转移到肺部的肿瘤细胞，从而提高了小鼠的生存率[2]。在BALB/c小鼠皮下注射结肠癌26细胞后，磷酸氯喹与5-FU合作显著增强了5-FU诱导的肿瘤生长抑制作用，通过增加细胞凋亡比率[5]。
References:
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[2]. Jiang, P.D., et al., Antitumor and antimetastatic activities of chloroquine diphosphate in a murine model of breast cancer. Biomed Pharmacother, 2010. 64(9): p. 609-14.
[3]. Choi, J.H., et al., Chloroquine enhances the chemotherapeutic activity of 5-fluorouracil in a colon cancer cell line via cell cycle alteration. APMIS, 2012. 120(7): p. 597-604.
[4]. Zhou, Z.R., et al., Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 regulates the mechanism of irradiation-induced CNE-2 human nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell autophagy and inhibition of autophagy contributes to the radiation sensitization of CNE-2 cells. Oncol Rep, 2013. 29(6): p. 2498-506.
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