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Mechanisms Involved in Growth Inhibition Induced by Clofibrate in Hepatoma Cells by Giuliana Muzio; Marina Maggiora; Antonella Trombetta; Germana Martinasso; Patrizia Reffo; Sebastiano Colombatto; Rosa Angela Canuto is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.
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Low concentrations of some peroxisome proliferators have been found to decrease apoptosis in rat liver cells, whereas higher but pharmacological concentrations have been found to inhibit cell proliferation or to induce apoptosis in human and rat hepatoma cells. The highly deviated JM2 rat hepatoma cell line was used to examine the mechanisms underlying the inhibitory effect on cell proliferation. Clofibrate chiefly inhibited cell proliferation in these cells. Parallel to the decrease in cell proliferation there was an increase of peroxisome proliferator activated receptor (PPAR) gamma and of protein phosphatase 2A, whose importance was confirmed, respectively, by using antisense oliginucleotides (AS-ODN) or okadaic acid. The increase of protein phosphatase 2A induced by PPARgamma caused a decrease of MAPK, an intracellular signaling transduction pathway, as shown by evaluation of Erk1,2 and c-myc. In light of these results, clofibrate, like conventional synthetic ligands of PPARgamma, may be regarded as a possible prototype anti-tumour drug.
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- Author
- Giuliana Muzio; Marina Maggiora; Antonella Trombetta; Germana Martinasso; Patrizia Reffo; Sebastiano Colombatto; Rosa Angela Canuto
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0300-483X)
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Environmental Science (Life Sciences)