ArticlePharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)2023
Resveratrol Enhances Cytotoxic Effects of Cisplatin by Inducing Cell Cycle Arrest and Apoptosis in Ovarian Adenocarcinoma SKOV-3 Cells through Activating the p38 MAPK and Suppressing AKT.
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- Advances in targeting p38 MAPK for cancer therapy: insights from molecular pharmacology and medicinal chemistry.Molecular diversity · 2026Review
- Thiostrepton potentiates chemotherapy-induced cell death in cisplatin-resistant SKOV3 cells.BMC cancer · 2026Article
- Diosmetin overcomes resistance to cisplatin in ovarian cancer by suppressing the MAPK signaling pathway.Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England) · 2026Article
- Synergistic Anticancer Effects of Resveratrol and Carboplatin in Y79 Retinoblastoma Cells: Mechanistic Insights into Apoptosis, G2/M Arrest, and ROS-Dependent Mitochondrial Dysfunction.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Resveratrol Induces Proteasomal Degradation of PTPN1 to Enhance Cisplatin Sensitivity in Epstein-Barr Virus-Associated Malignancies.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Combined Antineoplastic Effects of Metformin, Boric Acid and Resveratrol in SKOV3 Ovarian Cancer Cells.Biomedicines · 2026Article
- Enhancing Cancer Therapy with Hyperthermia: Synergistic Effects with Natural Compounds and Conventional Treatments.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Integrating alternative therapies in overcoming chemotherapy resistance in tumors.Molecular biology reports · 2025Review
- Resveratrol contributes to NK cell-mediated breast cancer cytotoxicity by upregulating ULBP2 through miR-17-5p downmodulation and activation of MINK1/JNK/c-Jun signaling.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Article
- Cytotoxic Activity of Curcumin- and Resveratrol-Loaded Core-Shell Systems in Resistant and Sensitive Human Ovarian Cancer Cells.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Parecoxib Enhances Resveratrol against Human Colorectal Cancer Cells through Akt and TXNDC5 Inhibition and MAPK Regulation.Nutrients · 2024Article
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- An Update on Physiopathological Roles of Akt in the ReprodAKTive Mammalian Ovary.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Advances in the role of resveratrol and its mechanism of action in common gynecological tumors.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Review
- Resveratrol Inhibits Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma (NPC) by Targeting the MAPK Signaling Pathway.Anti-cancer agents in medicinal chemistry · 2024Article
- Synergistic anticancer activity of resveratrol with cisplatin and carboplatin in A549 lung adenocarcinoma cells.International journal of clinical and experimental pathology · 2024Article
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Abstract
In the current study, we identified a mechanism of resveratrol (RES) underlying its anti-cancer properties against human ovarian adenocarcinoma SKOV-3 cells. We investigated its anti-proliferative and apoptosis-inducing effects in combination with cisplatin, using cell viability assay, flow cytometry, immunofluorescence study and Western blot analysis. We discovered that RES suppressed cancer cell proliferation and stimulated apoptosis, especially when combined with cisplatin. This compound also inhibited SKOV-3 cell survival, which may partly be due to its potential to inhibit protein kinase B (AKT) phosphorylation and induce the S-phase cell cycle arrest. RES in combination with cisplatin strongly induced cancer cell apoptosis through activating the caspase-dependent cascade, which was associated with its ability to stimulate nuclear phosphorylation of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), well recognized to be involved in transducing environmental stress signals. RES-induced p38 phosphorylation was very specific, and the activation status of extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 (ERK1/2) and c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) was not mainly affected. Taken together, our study provides accumulated evidence that RES represses proliferation and promotes apoptosis in SKOV-3 ovarian cancer cells through activating the p38 MAPK pathway. It is interesting that this active compound may be used as an effective agent to sensitize ovarian cancer to apoptosis induced by standard chemotherapies.
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