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Abstract Title:

Synergistic Activity of Deguelin and Fludarabine in Cells from Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Patients and in the New Zealand Black Murine Model.

Abstract Source:

PLoS One. 2016 ;11(4):e0154159. Epub 2016 Apr 21. PMID: 27101369

Abstract Author(s):

Nerea Rebolleda, Ignacio Losada-Fernandez, Gema Perez-Chacon, Raquel Castejon, Silvia Rosado, Marta Morado, Maria Teresa Vallejo-Cremades, Andrea Martinez, Juan A Vargas-Nuñez, Paloma Perez-Aciego

Article Affiliation:

Nerea Rebolleda

Abstract:

B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) remains an incurable disease, and despite the improvement achieved by therapeutic regimes developed over the last years still a subset of patients face a rather poor prognosis and will eventually relapse and become refractory to therapy. The natural rotenoid deguelin has been shown to induce apoptosis in several cancer cells and cell lines, including primary human CLL cells, and to act as a chemopreventive agent in animal models of induced carcinogenesis. In this work, we show that deguelin induces apoptosis in vitro in primary human CLL cells and in CLL-like cells from the New Zealand Black (NZB) mouse strain. In both of them, deguelin dowregulates AKT, NFκB and several downstream antiapoptotic proteins (XIAP, cIAP, BCL2, BCL-XL and survivin), activating the mitochondrial pathway of apoptosis. Moreover, deguelin inhibits stromal cell-mediated c-Myc upregulation and resistance to fludarabine, increasing fludarabine induced DNA damage. We further showthat deguelin has activity in vivo against NZB CLL-like cells in an experimental model of CLL in young NZB mice transplanted with spleen cells from aged NZB mice with lymphoproliferation. Moreover, the combination of deguelin and fludarabine in this model prolonged the survival of transplanted miceat doses of both compounds that were ineffective when administered individually. These results suggest deguelin could have potential for the treatment of human CLL.

Study Type : Animal Study, Human In Vitro

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