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ArticleArquivos brasileiros de oftalmologia2021

Optimizing the effective doses of mitomycin C, 5-fluorouracil, and their combination on cultivated basal cell carcinoma.

Sahar Balagholi, Maryam Aletaha, Mozhgan Rezaei Kanavi, Samira Karami, Rasul Dabbaghi, Parisa Ashtar Nakhaie

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Article in Arquivos brasileiros de oftalmologia, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Sahar BalagholiBlood Transfusion Research Center, High Institute for Research and Education in Transfusion Medicine, Tehran, Iran.
Maryam AletahaOphthalmic Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Mozhgan Rezaei KanaviOcular Tissue Engineering Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.ORCID 0000-0002-1497-2260
Samira KaramiOcular Tissue Engineering Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Rasul DabbaghiOcular Tissue Engineering Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Parisa Ashtar NakhaieOphthalmic Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences · IRHigh Institute for Education and Research in Transfusion Medicine · IR

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Abstract

purposeThis study aimed to optimize the effective doses of mitomycin C, 5-fluorouracil, and their combination on cultivated basal cell carcinoma.

methodsCultivated basal cell carcinoma and fibroblastic cells were treated with different concentrations of mitomycin C, 5-fluorouracil, and their combination. Cell viability, cell cycle, apoptosis, and expression levels of TP53, CDKN1A, and CDK6 were investigated. The most effective drug with its optimum dosage was administered via multiple intralesional injections to a 65-year-old woman with advanced periorbital nodulo-ulcerative BCC.

resultsThe concentrations of 0.00312 and 0.312 mg/mL were considered optimum for mitomycin C and 5-fluorouracil, respectively. The mean viabilities of basal cell carcinoma treated with mitomycin C alone and its combination with 5-fluorouracil were significantly less than those of the controls (p=0.002 and p=0.04, respectively). The cell cycle of all the treated basal cell carcinoma groups was arrested in the S phase. The apoptotic rates (p=0.002) of mitomycin C treated basal cell carcinoma were higher than those of the other treated cells, and their TP53 was significantly upregulated (p=0.0001). Moreover, CDKN1A was upregulated, whereas CDK6 was downregulated in basal cell carcinoma treated with either 5-fluorouracil (p=0.0001 and p=0.01, respectively) or the combination of 5-fluorouracil and mitomycin C (p=0.007 and p=0.001, respectively). Basal cell carcinoma lesions were significantly alleviated following mitomycin C injections in the reported patient.

conclusionOur in vitro results revealed that the effective doses of mitomycin C and 5-fluorouracil on cultivated basal cell carcinoma were optimized. Mitomycin C was more effective in inducing the apoptosis of basal cell carcinoma than 5-fluorouracil and their combination. The intralesional injections of the optimum dose of mitomycin C could be proposed for the nonsurgical treatment of advanced eyelid basal cell carcinoma.

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Basal Cell CarcinomaSkin NeoplasmsAgedAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsFemaleFluorouracilHumansMitomycinSurvival AnalysisFluorouracilMitomycin

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