Resistance of colon cancer to 5-fluorouracil may be overcome by combination with chloroquine, an in vivo study

Anti-cancer Drugs
Kazuhito SasakiJoji Kitayama

Abstract

Autophagy is a complex of adaptive cellular response that enhances cancer cell survival in the face of cellular stresses such as chemotherapy. Recently, chloroquine diphosphate (CQ), a widely used antimalarial drug, has been studied as a potential inhibitor of autophagy. Here, we aimed to investigate the role of CQ in potentiating the effect of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), the chemotherapeutic agent of first choice for the treatment of colorectal cancer, in an animal model of colon cancer. The mouse colon cancer cell line colon26 was used. For the in-vivo study, colon26 cells were injected subcutaneously into BALB/c mice, which were treated with saline as a control, CQ (50 mg/kg/day), 5-FU (30 mg/kg/day), or the combination therapy (CQ plus 5-FU). The tumor volume ratio and body weight were monitored. After the sacrifice, tumor tissue protein extracts and tumor sections were prepared and subjected to immunoblotting for the analysis of autophagy-related and apoptosis-related proteins, and the terminal transferase uridyl end labeling assay. The combination of CQ resulted in the inhibition of 5-FU-induced autophagy and a significant enhancement in the 5-FU-induced inhibition of tumor growth. Furthermore, the combination treatment of CQ ...Continue Reading

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