Curcumin and metformin-mediated chemoprevention of oral cancer is associated with inhibition of cancer stem cells.

Curcumin and metformin-mediated chemoprevention of oral cancer is associated with inhibition of cancer stem cells.

Molecular carcinogenesis (2017-06-16)

Gangotri Siddappa, Safeena Kulsum, Doddathimmasandra Ramanjanappa Ravindra, Vinay V Kumar, Nalini Raju, Nisheena Raghavan, Holalugunda Vittalamurthy Sudheendra, Anupam Sharma, Sumsum P Sunny, Tina Jacob, Binu T Kuruvilla, Merina Benny, Benny Antony, Mukund Seshadri, Padma Lakshminarayan, Wesley Hicks, Amritha Suresh, Moni A Kuriakose

PMID28618017

ABSTRACT

Effective chemoprevention is critical for improving outcomes of oral cancer. As single agents, curcumin and metformin are reported to exhibit chemopreventive properties, in vitro as well as in patients with oral cancer. In this study, the chemopreventive efficacy of this drug combination was tested in a 4-nitro quinoline-1-oxide (4NQO) induced mice oral carcinogenesis model. Molecular analysis revealed a cancer stem cell (CSC)-driven oral carcinogenic progression in this model, wherein a progressive increase in the expression of CSC-specific markers (CD44 and CD133) was observed from 8th to 25th week, at transcript (40-100-fold) and protein levels (P ≤ 0.0001). Chemopreventive treatment of the animals at 17th week with curcumin and metformin indicated that the combination regimen decreased tumor volume when compared to the control arm (0.69+0.03 vs 6.66+2.4 mm

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P4780

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TWEEN^® 80, suitable for cell culture, suitable for insect cell culture, viscous liquid

R0901

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RNAlater^®, Stabilize and protect RNA with immediate RNase inactivation