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Additive antiangiogenesis effect of ginsenoside Rg3 with low-dose metronomic temozolomide on rat glioma cells both in vivo and in vitro

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research, February 2016
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Title
Additive antiangiogenesis effect of ginsenoside Rg3 with low-dose metronomic temozolomide on rat glioma cells both in vivo and in vitro
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Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research, February 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13046-015-0274-y
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Caixing Sun, Yang Yu, Lizhen Wang, Bin Wu, Liang Xia, Fang Feng, Zhiqiang Ling, Shihua Wang

Abstract

Glioblastoma is the most common and deadly primary brain tumor in adults. Low-dose,metronomic (LDM) temozolomide (TMZ) displays improved efficacy in the treatment of glioblastoma by targeting angiogenesis, but has a limited effect on recurrence. The antiangiogenesis drug ginsenoside Rg3 (RG3) is the main active ingredient of ginseng, a popular herbal medicine. Using an in vitro and a rat model of an orthotopic glioma allograft, this study was to determine whether RG3 enhanced the antiangiogenesis activity of LDM TMZ in the treatment of glioblastoma. Our results showed that combined use of TMZ with RG3 displayed additive inhibition on proliferation of both human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) and rat C6 glioma cells in vitro. They additively arrested cell cycle, increased apoptosis, and decreased VEGF-A and BCL-2 expression in HUVEC. Antiangiogenesis effect was also evaluated in the rat model of orthotopic glioma allograft, based upon markers including relative cerebral blood volume (rCBV) by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), VEGF levels and microvessel density (MVD)/CD34 staining. LDM TMZ alone was potent in suppressing angiogenesis and tumor growth, whereas RG3 alone only had modest antiangiogenesis effects. Combined treatment significantly and additively suppressed angiogenesis, without additive inhibitory effects on allografted tumor growth. These data provide evidence showing the efficacy of LDM TMZ on glioma treatment. The combined additive antiangiogenesis effect suggests that RG3 has the potential to further increase the efficacy of LDM TMZ in the treatment of glioblastoma.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 39 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 15%
Student > Bachelor 5 13%
Student > Master 4 10%
Other 4 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 8%
Other 6 15%
Unknown 11 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 12 31%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 5 13%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 13%
Neuroscience 2 5%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 3%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 12 31%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 February 2016.
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#19,942,887
of 25,371,288 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research
#1,461
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#286,857
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research
#17
of 36 outputs
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