ArticleOncology letters2017
Bufalin sensitizes human bladder carcinoma cells to TRAIL-mediated apoptosis.
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- 5-Aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide riboside, an AMPK activator, enhances TRAIL-mediated apoptosis in human bladder cancer cells in a p38 MAPK-dependent manner.Genes & genomics · 2026Article
- Traditional Chinese medicine in non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer: a scoping review of syndrome characteristics and critical synthesis of pharmacological and mechanistic evidence.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Review
- Combinational Antitumor Strategies Based on the Active Ingredients of Toad Skin and Toad Venom.Drug design, development and therapy · 2024Review
- TRAIL-mediated signaling in bladder cancer: realization of clinical efficacy of TRAIL-based therapeutics in medical oncology.Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England) · 2023Review
- Bufalin-Mediated Regulation of Cell Signaling Pathways in Different Cancers: Spotlight on JAK/STAT, Wnt/β-Catenin, mTOR, TRAIL/TRAIL-R, and Non-Coding RNAs.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 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
- Proscillaridin A Sensitizes Human Colon Cancer Cells to TRAIL-Induced Cell Death.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- A research update on the antitumor effects of active components of Chinese medicine ChanSu.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Review
- Anti-tumor Activity of Bufalin by Inhibiting c-MET Mediated MEK/ERK and PI3K/AKT Signaling Pathways in Gallbladder Cancer.Journal of Cancer · 2020Article
- New therapeutic aspects of steroidal cardiac glycosides: the anticancer properties of Huachansu and its main active constituent Bufalin.Cancer cell international · 2019Review
- Andrographolide Enhances TRAIL-Induced Apoptosis viaInternational journal of biological sciences · 2019Article
- Bufalin induced apoptosis of bladder carcinoma cells through the inactivation of Na+K+-ATPase.Oncology letters · 2018Article
- Bufalin inhibits gastric cancer invasion and metastasis by down-regulating Wnt/ASCL2 expression.Oncotarget · 2018Article
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Abstract
Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL), a member of the TNF superfamily, has garnered interest as it is relatively non-toxic to normal cells, but selectively induces apoptotic cell death in multiple types of transformed or malignant cells. Bufalin is the major digoxin-like immunoreactive component of Sum Su, which is obtained from the skin and parotid venom gland of the toad. Bufalin is known to inhibit cell proliferation and induce apoptosis in a variety of cancer cells. The present study investigated whether bufalin promoted TRAIL-induced apoptotic cell death. In the present study, a combined treatment using bufalin and TRAIL significantly increased TRAIL-mediated inhibition of cell viability and increased apoptosis in T24 human bladder cancer cells. The apoptotic effects were associated with the upregulation of death receptor proteins and the downregulation of cellular Fas-associated death domain-like interleukin-1β-converting enzyme inhibitory protein and X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis protein. Furthermore, the data revealed that bufalin and TRAIL activated caspase-3, -8 and -9 and subsequently increased the degradation of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase. Taken altogether, the nontoxic doses of bufalin and TRAIL sensitized T24 cells to TRAIL-mediated apoptosis. Therefore, bufalin may provide an effective therapeutic strategy for the safe treatment of human bladder cancers that are resistant to TRAIL.
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