YIN Guobing, et al. The comparative study of growth inhibition effect of arsenic trioxide on human breast cancer MCF-7 and MCF-7/ADR cell. [J]. Journal of Chongqing Medical University (4):570-573(2005)
YIN Guobing, et al. The comparative study of growth inhibition effect of arsenic trioxide on human breast cancer MCF-7 and MCF-7/ADR cell. [J]. Journal of Chongqing Medical University (4):570-573(2005) DOI: 10.13406/j.cnki.cyxb.2005.04.024.
The comparative study of growth inhibition effect of arsenic trioxide on human breast cancer MCF-7 and MCF-7/ADR cell
Objective:To explore the difference between the growth inhibition effect of arsenic trioxide(As
2
O
3
)on the human breast cancer MCF-7 and multidrug resistance MCF-7/ADR cell line.Methods:MCF-7 and MCF-7/ADR cell was cultured with 0.5μmol/L~16μmol/L arsenic trioxide in vitro.MTT test was adopted to detect the growth suppression effect of As
2
O
3
in the two cell lines.Apoptosis morphology was studied with light microscope and electron microscope.Apoptosis ratio was analysed with flow cytometry.Results:As
2
O
3
could inhibit the proliferation of the MCF-7 and MCF-7/ADR cell line
especially that of 2μmol/L~16μmol/L
and the effect was dose-and-time dependent.The IC
50
at 96h was 3.0μmol/L for MCF-7 and 12.8μmol/L for MCF-7/ADR.Cell morphology and flow cytometry revealed the growth suppression was caused mainly by apoptosis rather than necrosis;however
to obtain the same inhibitory level
MCF-7/ADR cell required higher concentration of As2O3 and longer processing time.Conclusion:As
2
O
3
can inhibit the proliferation in MCF-7/ADR cell as well as MCF-7 cell