Volume 11, No 4, Dec 2001
ISSN: 1001-0602
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018
impact factor 17.848*
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Volume 11 Issue 4, December 2001: 311-316
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Effect of heparin on apoptosis in human nasopharyngeal carcinoma CNE2 cells
LI Hong Liang1, Kai He YE1, Hai Wei ZHANG2, Ying Ru LUO1, Xian Da REN1*, Ai Hua XIONG1, Rui SITU2
1Department of Pharmacology, Pharmacy College,
2Department of Pathology Medical College, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
Correspondence:
In order to study the mechanism of the effect of heparin on apoptosis in carcinoma cells, the nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell line CNE2 was used to identify the effect of heparin on apoptosis associated with the expression of c-myc, bax, bcl-2 proteins by use of Hoechst 33258 staining, terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick-end labeling (TUNEL), agarose gel electrophoresis, and flow cytometry, as well as Western blot analysis. The results showed that heparin induced apoptosis of CNE2 cells including the morphologic changes such as reduction in the volume, and the nuclear chromatin condensation, as well as the "ladder pattern" revealed by agarose gel electrophoresis of DNA in a concentration-dependent manner. The number of TUNEL-positive cells was dramatically increased to 33.6+1.2% from 2.8+0.3% by treatment with heparin in different concentrations (10 ~ 40 kU/L). The apoptotic index was increased to 32.5% from 3.5% by detecting SubG1 peaks on flow cytometry. Western blot analysis showed that levels of bcl-2, bax and c-myc were significantly overexpressed by treatment with the increase of heparin concentrations. These results suggest that heparin induces apoptosis of CNE2 cells, which may be regulated by differential expression of apoptosis-related genes.
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