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- Title
AK000953 silencing can enhance the killing effect of danazol on uterine fibroids.
- Authors
Li, Shimei; Zhang, Ying; Niu, Lichun; Wang, Qianyun; Lu, Xiaojuan; Zhao, Xuejing; Liang, Jing; Liu, Huiling
- Abstract
<bold>Purpose: </bold>Our aim was to study the role of AK000953 silencing for the killing effect of danazol on uterine fibroids.<bold>Methods: </bold>Quantitative PCR was applied to identify differential expression of AK000953 in uterine fibroid tissue and normal uterine tissue. Then we isolated and cultured uterine fibroid cells, designed the siRNA of AK000953 to silence its expression in uterine fibroid cells, and detected the treatment effect of danazol and AK000953 siRNA on cell proliferation, cell apoptosis, and cell invasion. Finally, guinea pig model of uterine fibroids was constructed to verify the effect of AK000953 silencing on uterine fibroid treatment with danazol in vivo.<bold>Results: </bold>Quantitative PCR showed that the AK000953 gene was highly expressed in uterine fibroid tissue compared with normal uterine tissue (2.1 ± 0.15 vs. 0.8 ± 0.05, p < 0.01). After AK000953 silencing in uterine fibroid cells, we discovered that the inhibition rate in danazol-siRNA group was 56 ± 5 %, the cell apoptosis rate of danazol-siRNA group was 43 ± 2.3 %, and the invasion rate of uterine fibroid cells was 12 ± 1 %, which all showed significant differences with the control group or danazol group. Guinea pig model confirmed that the treatment of danazol and AK000953 siRNA effectively inhibited the development of fibroids in vivo.<bold>Conclusion: </bold>AK000953 silencing could effectively enhance the killing effect of danazol on uterine fibroid cells.
- Subjects
DANAZOL; ESTROGEN antagonists; ANIMAL experimentation; APOPTOSIS; CELL physiology; GUINEA pigs; POLYMERASE chain reaction; RNA; UTERINE fibroids; UTERINE tumors; CANCER cell culture; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Archives of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 2015, Vol 292, Issue 5, p1075
- ISSN
0932-0067
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s00404-015-3695-0