ArticleOncology letters2013
Reversal of multidrug resistance by the anti-malaria drug artesunate in the esophageal cancer Eca109/ABCG2 cell line.
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- Artesunate: A Review of Its Potential Therapeutic Effects and Mechanisms in Digestive Diseases.Pharmaceutics · 2025Review
- Malaria and Cancer: a critical review on the established associations and new perspectives.Infectious agents and cancer · 2021Review
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- Antimalarial Drugs Enhance the Cytotoxicity of 5-Aminolevulinic Acid-Based Photodynamic Therapy against the Mammary Tumor Cells of Mice In Vitro.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
- Artesunate enhances adriamycin cytotoxicity by inhibiting glycolysis in adriamycin-resistant chronic myeloid leukemia K562/ADR cells.RSC advances · 2019Article
- Emerging Anti-Mitotic Activities and Other Bioactivities of Sesquiterpene Compounds upon Human Cells.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2017Review
- Enhanced autophagy reveals vulnerability of P-gp mediated epirubicin resistance in triple negative breast cancer cells.Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death · 2016Article
- Development of Anticancer Agents from Plant-Derived Sesquiterpene Lactones.Current medicinal chemistry · 2016Review
- MicroRNA-27a directly targetsOncology letters · 2015Article
- Compounds from Chinese herbal medicines as reversal agents for P-glycoprotein-mediated multidrug resistance in tumours.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2014Review
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Abstract
The overexpression of ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters confers multidrug resistance (MDR) to tumor cells. ABCG2 is a member of the ABC superfamily. The present study aimed to investigate the correlation between ABCG2 expression and the MDR of esophageal cancer and to estimate the therapeutic benefit of downregulating ABCG2 expression and reversing chemoresistance in esophageal cells using artesunate (Art). The Eca109/ABCG2 cell line was established by transfecting the ABCG2 gene into Eca109 cells. The Eca109/ABCG2 esophageal cancer cells with ABCG2 gene overexpression were resistant to adriamycin (ADM), daunorubicin (DNR) and mitoxantrone (MIT), which indicated that ABCG2 may be associated with drug resistance in esophageal cancer. Art is a noteworthy antimalarial agent, particularly in severe and drug-resistant cancer cases, as Art is able to reverse drug resistance. In the present study, Art also exerted profound anticancer activity. The mechanism for the reversal of multidrug resistance by Art in esophageal carcinoma was analyzed using cellular experiments, but still remains largely unknown.
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