TY - JOUR
T1 - Manuka honey in combination with 5-Fluorouracil decreases physical parameters of colonspheres enriched with cancer stem-like cells and reduces their resistance to apoptosis
AU - Cianciosi, Danila
AU - Forbes-Hernández, Tamara Y.
AU - Regolo, Lucia
AU - Alvarez-Suarez, José M.
AU - Quinzi, Denise
AU - Sargenti, Azzurra
AU - Bai, Weibin
AU - Tian, Lingmin
AU - Giampieri, Francesca
AU - Battino, Maurizio
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2022/4/16
Y1 - 2022/4/16
N2 - The aim of the present work was to evaluate the in vitro effect of Manuka honey and its combination with 5-Fu, the most common drug used in the treatment of colon cancer, on the morphological and physical parameters of colonspheres enriched with cancer stem-like cells deriving from HCT-116 colon adenocarcinoma cell line and on the apoptosis rate. Manuka honey, alone and more in combination with 5-Fu, reduced the weight, the diameter and mass density of the spheroids and induced apoptosis through the downregulation of many apoptosis inhibitors, including IAPs (Livin, Survivin, XIAP), IGFs (IGF-I, IGF-II and IGF-IR) and HSPs (HSP-27, HSP-60 and HSP-70). These results led to a reduction in the survival ability of cancer stem-like cells, as well as to a chemosensitizing effect of honey towards 5-Fu, considering that apoptosis resistance is one of the main causes of cancer stem-like cells chemoresistance.
AB - The aim of the present work was to evaluate the in vitro effect of Manuka honey and its combination with 5-Fu, the most common drug used in the treatment of colon cancer, on the morphological and physical parameters of colonspheres enriched with cancer stem-like cells deriving from HCT-116 colon adenocarcinoma cell line and on the apoptosis rate. Manuka honey, alone and more in combination with 5-Fu, reduced the weight, the diameter and mass density of the spheroids and induced apoptosis through the downregulation of many apoptosis inhibitors, including IAPs (Livin, Survivin, XIAP), IGFs (IGF-I, IGF-II and IGF-IR) and HSPs (HSP-27, HSP-60 and HSP-70). These results led to a reduction in the survival ability of cancer stem-like cells, as well as to a chemosensitizing effect of honey towards 5-Fu, considering that apoptosis resistance is one of the main causes of cancer stem-like cells chemoresistance.
KW - Apoptosis
KW - Cancer
KW - Chemosensibility
KW - Honey
KW - Spheroids
KW - Stemness
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U2 - 10.1016/j.foodchem.2021.131753
DO - 10.1016/j.foodchem.2021.131753
M3 - Artículo
C2 - 34883427
AN - SCOPUS:85120850493
SN - 0308-8146
VL - 374
JO - Food Chemistry
JF - Food Chemistry
M1 - 131753
ER -