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ArticleOncology letters2018

Propofol promotes apoptosis and suppresses the HOTAIR-mediated mTOR/p70S6K signaling pathway in melanoma cells.

Zhiwei Shang, Haixia Feng, Lisha Cui, Weiping Wang, Hongwei Fu

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Article in Oncology letters, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Zhiwei ShangDepartment of Dermatology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, Henan 471003, P.R. China.
Haixia FengDepartment of Dermatology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, Henan 471003, P.R. China.
Lisha CuiDepartment of Dermatology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, Henan 471003, P.R. China.
Weiping WangDepartment of Dermatology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, Henan 471003, P.R. China.
Hongwei FuDepartment of Dermatology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, Henan 471003, P.R. China.
First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Science and Technology · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Propofol is an intravenous anesthetic, which is widely used in clinical anesthesia induction and maintenance and is critical in the sedation of patients. However, the functions and mechanisms of propofol on apoptosis of melanoma cells remain unclear. The present study investigated whether propofol promotes cell apoptosis and suppresses the HOX transcript antisense RNA (HOTAIR)-mediated mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway in melanoma cells. B16F10 cells were cultured with different concentrations (0-10 µM) of propofol for 24 or 48 h. Proliferation and apoptosis of B16F10 cells were detected using MTT assay and flow cytometry. The pcDNA 3.1(-)-HOTAIR and pcDNA 3.1(-)-control plasmids were transfected into B16F10 cells using Lipofectamine 2000. In the present study, treatment with propofol significantly reduced viability, and induced apoptosis and caspase-3 activity in melanoma cells. Propofol treatment significantly inhibited HOTAIR expression and the expression of phosphorylated (p)-mTOR and p- p70S6K protein in melanoma cells. Overexpression of HOTAIR significantly increased viability of melanoma cells, and increased HOTAIR, p-mTOR and p-p70S6K protein expression in melanoma cells. These results indicated that propofol promotes apoptosis and suppresses the HOTAIR-mediated mTOR signaling pathway in melanoma cells.

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HOX transcript antisense RNAmechanistic target of rapamycinmelanomapropofol

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PMID29375720
PMCPMC5766068
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