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ArticleOncology letters2017

Combining thioridazine and loratadine for the treatment of gastrointestinal tumor.

Tingting Chen, Yunlong Hu, Bin Liu, Xinping Huang, Qin Li, Ningning Gao, Zhenchao Jin, Tieliu Jia, Deyin Guo, Guangyi Jin

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Article in Oncology letters, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Tingting ChenCancer Research Center, Department of Medicine, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518060, P.R. China.
Yunlong HuCancer Research Center, Department of Medicine, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518060, P.R. China.
Bin LiuCancer Research Center, Department of Medicine, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518060, P.R. China.
Xinping HuangCancer Research Center, Department of Medicine, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518060, P.R. China.
Qin LiCancer Research Center, Department of Medicine, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518060, P.R. China.
Ningning GaoCancer Research Center, Department of Medicine, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518060, P.R. China.
Zhenchao JinCancer Research Center, Department of Medicine, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518060, P.R. China.
Tieliu JiaCancer Research Center, Department of Medicine, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518060, P.R. China.
Deyin GuoDepartment of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, P.R. China.
Guangyi JinCancer Research Center, Department of Medicine, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518060, P.R. China.
Shenzhen University · CNWuhan University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In 2015, the American Society of Clinical Oncology announced that strategies of using combination therapies have been indicated to be effective against many types of cancer. In the present study, thioridazine (THZ) was used in a combination therapy with loratadine (LOR) to target gastrointestinal tumor, with the aim of investigating whether combined therapy was superior to monotherapy in its antitumor effects. The antiproliferative effects on CT26.WT and MFC cells were analyzed using cell-counting kit-8 assay, and synergistic effect was assessed by combination index (Fig. 1). Annexin V and propidium iodide staining indicated the combination therapy was able to induce apoptosis and that this may be mediated via caspase-3, -9 and poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) (Fig. 2). Antitumor activity was also evaluated in CT26.WT xenografts in BALB/c mice (Fig. 3). Furthermore, as expected, combination therapy was able to successfully inhibit the phosphoinositide 3-kinase/Akt/mammalian target of rapamycin signaling pathway (Fig. 4). These findings suggest that the combination therapy with THZ and LOR may provide a promising therapy for gastrointestinal cancer.

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antipsychotic drugapoptosisgastrointestinal tumorloratadinethioridazine

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PMID29085455
PMCPMC5649607
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