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ArticleMedical oncology (Northwood, London, England)2021

Targeting Hedgehog signalling in CD133-positive hepatocellular carcinoma: improving Lenvatinib therapeutic efficiency.

Qingqing Hu, Xiaochu Hu, Lingjian Zhang, Yalei Zhao, Lanjuan Li

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Article in Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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Qingqing Hu *State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
Xiaochu Hu *Department of Oncology, The Affiliated Huai'an No.1 People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Huai'an, China.
Lingjian ZhangState Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
Yalei ZhaoState Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
Lanjuan LiState Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. ljli@zju.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6945-0593
State Key Laboratory of Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious DiseasesXuzhou Medical College · CN

Funding

Key research and development project of the Department of Science and Technology of Zhejiang Province 2017C03051Science Fund for Creative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China No.81721091
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lenvatinib has been approved as a first-line treatment for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in recent years. However, Lenvatinib resistance hinders its therapeutic effect, and the underlying mechanism of action of Lenvatinib needs to be better understood. Increasing studies have suggested that cancer stem cells (CSCs) are an important driving force. Hedgehog signalling is important for the maintenance of hepatocellular carcinoma stemness. In the present study, we investigated the therapeutic role of the Hedgehog signalling inhibitor in reversing Lenvatinib resistance in CD133-positive HCC cells. First, we examined the inhibitory impact of Lenvatinib against CD133 expression in HCC cell lines through Western blot. The CCK8 assay showed that GANT61, a Hedgehog signalling inhibitor, has a suppression advantage over other CSCs-related signalling inhibitors regarding cell viability. Moreover, Lenvatinib and GANT61 combined had better inhibitory effects on cell viability and malignant properties, both in vivo and in vitro. In addition, GANT61 reversed the upregulation of CD133 and Hedgehog signalling caused by Lenvatinib in SK-Hep-1 and MHCC97H. Thus, our results suggested that GANT61 reversed Lenvatinib resistance by suppressing Hedgehog signalling in HCC cells, especially in CD133-positive cells and combining Lenvatinib with Hedgehog signalling inhibitors could improve its therapeutic efficacy in HCC patients with high CD133 expression levels.

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AC133 AntigenAnimalsAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsCarcinoma, HepatocellularCell Line, TumorCell ProliferationDrug Resistance, NeoplasmHedgehog ProteinsHumansLiver NeoplasmsMicePhenylurea CompoundsPyridinesPyrimidinesQuinolinesSignal TransductionAC133 AntigenGANT 61Hedgehog ProteinslenvatinibPhenylurea CompoundsPROM1 protein, humanPyridinesPyrimidinesQuinolinesCD133GANT61Hedgehog signallingHepatocellular carcinomaLenvatinib therapeutic efficiency

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