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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-7-29
pubmed:abstractText
Drug resistance continues to be a serious problem in cancer therapy. We investigated whether indomethacin, which inhibits cyclooxygenases, is able to overcome doxorubicin resistance in K562/ADR leukemia cells. Indomethacin at 10 microM increased the cytotoxicity of doxorubicin and vincristine in K562/ADR cells. Intracellular glutathione content was elevated in K562/ADR cells. Indomethacin treatment decreased glutathione content and glutathione-conjugates in K562/ADR cells. Increased expression of gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase (gamma-GCS) was observed in K562/ADR cells, but this expression was decreased by indomethacin treatment. The activity of the gamma-GCS promoter from K562/ADR cells decreased after indomethacin treatment in MDA231 cells. These data strongly suggest that the cyclooxygenase inhibitor indomethacin increases the cytotoxicity of doxorubicin by decreasing the intracellular contents of glutathione and its conjugates with decreasing expression of gamma-GCS by inhibiting gamma-GCS promoter activity.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
1432-0843
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
64
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
715-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19153736-Antineoplastic Agents, pubmed-meshheading:19153736-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:19153736-DNA Primers, pubmed-meshheading:19153736-Doxorubicin, pubmed-meshheading:19153736-Drug Resistance, Neoplasm, pubmed-meshheading:19153736-Drug Synergism, pubmed-meshheading:19153736-Glutamate-Cysteine Ligase, pubmed-meshheading:19153736-Glutathione, pubmed-meshheading:19153736-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:19153736-Indomethacin, pubmed-meshheading:19153736-K562 Cells, pubmed-meshheading:19153736-Leukemia, pubmed-meshheading:19153736-Multidrug Resistance-Associated Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:19153736-Promoter Regions, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:19153736-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:19153736-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:19153736-Substrate Specificity
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Indomethacin overcomes doxorubicin resistance by decreasing intracellular content of glutathione and its conjugates with decreasing expression of gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase via promoter activity in doxorubicin-resistant leukemia cells.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pediatrics, Nippon Medical School, Chiba Hokusoh Hospital, Inba-Gun, Chiba, Japan. vff13540@nifty.ne.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't