ArticleOncology letters2012
Bufalin enhances the antitumor effect of gemcitabine in pancreatic cancer.
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- Bufalin Suppresses Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Through ER Stress-Ferroptosis Crosstalk Associated with IPInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Global trends in bufalin application research for cancer from 2003 to 2022: A bibliometric and visualised analysis.Heliyon · 2024Review
- Combinational Antitumor Strategies Based on the Active Ingredients of Toad Skin and Toad Venom.Drug design, development and therapy · 2024Review
- Advances in the treatment of pancreatic cancer with traditional Chinese medicine.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2023Review
- An overview of the past decade of bufalin in the treatment of refractory and drug-resistant cancers: current status, challenges, and future perspectives.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2023Review
- Effects of low-dose bufalin combined with hydroxycamptothecin on human castration-resistant prostate cancer xenografts in nude mice.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2021Article
- Emergence of Cardiac Glycosides as Potential Drugs: Current and Future Scope for Cancer Therapeutics.Biomolecules · 2021Review
- New therapeutic aspects of steroidal cardiac glycosides: the anticancer properties of Huachansu and its main active constituent Bufalin.Cancer cell international · 2019Review
- Bufalin enhances antitumor effect of paclitaxel on cervical tumorigenesis via inhibiting the integrin α2/β5/FAK signaling pathway.Oncotarget · 2016Article
- Bufalin inhibits the differentiation and proliferation of human osteosarcoma cell line hMG63-derived cancer stem cells.Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine · 2014Article
- Evaluating the cancer therapeutic potential of cardiac glycosides.BioMed research international · 2014Review
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Abstract
Bufalin, an active component of the Chinese medicine chan'su, has been reported to have an inhibitory effect on the growth of various types of cancer cells. In the present study, we investigated whether gemcitabine combined with bufalin enhanced the antitumor efficacy in pancreatic cancer. Three pancreatic cancer cell lines (Bxpc-3, Mia PaCa-2 and Panc-1) were treated with gemcitabine and/or bufalin in vitro. The combination treatment demonstrated greater inhibition of cellular growth and apoptosis. The activity of apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1 (ASK1)/JNK was upregulated in gemcitabine-induced apoptosis when combined with bufalin. We also observed that tumor growth was significantly inhibited by the combination therapy in a tumor-bearing mouse model, and upregulation of ASK1 activity was validated by immunohistochemical staining. These results suggest that bufalin may be a potential chemotherapeutic agent for pancreatic cancer, which could enhance the antitumor efficacy of gemcitabine when used in combination, possibly through the activation of ASK1/JNK.
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