YU Bing, et al. Relationship of the expression of IL-2 and IL-4 in breast cancer with chemosensitivity. [J]. Journal of Chongqing Medical University (7):835-838(2008)
YU Bing, et al. Relationship of the expression of IL-2 and IL-4 in breast cancer with chemosensitivity. [J]. Journal of Chongqing Medical University (7):835-838(2008)DOI:
Relationship of the expression of IL-2 and IL-4 in breast cancer with chemosensitivity
Objective:To investigate the relationship of the expression of IL-2 and IL-4 in breast cancer cells with chemosensitivity. Methods:Surgical samples of breast cancer
diagnosed by pathology
were obtained from The First Affiliated Hospital ofChongqing Medical University. The cancer sample cells were cultured separately in the incubator at 37℃
5%CO2 in vitro. The rate of inhibition of cancer cells by 4 kindsof anticancer drugs
which were EADM
5-Fu
NVB and DDP
were assayed by MTT method. Immunohistochemistry was used to detect the expression of IL-2 and IL-4 in the breast cancer tissues. Results:Sensitivity rates of 20 breast cancer cells in 0.1×PPC within 48h in vitro were 30%(EADM)
20%(5-Fu)
45%(NVB)and 25%(DDP).Respectively the rate of inhibition of EADM
5-Fu
NVB and DDP were significantly higher in the IL-2 positive cancer cells than in the IL-2 negative cancer cells. A positive correlation was found between expression of IL-2 and chemosensitivity for all the 4 anticancer drugs. The rates of inhibition of EADM and NVB were significantly lower in the IL-4 positive cancer cells than in the IL-4 negative cancer cells. A negative correlation was found between expression of IL-4 and chemosensitivity for the 2 anticancer drugs. Conclusions:The expression of IL-2 and IL-4 are related with the chemosensitivity of the breast cancer cells
and they may become one of the markers for judging the effect of chemotherapy in clinic. The combined detection of IL-2 and IL-4 may be taken as an index of the selection of anticancer drugs.