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Low-Frequency Magnetic Fields (LF-MFs) Inhibit Proliferation by Triggering Apoptosis and Altering Cell Cycle Distribution in Breast Cancer Cells
Breast cancer is a common malignancy threatening women’s health around the world. Despite improved treatments for different subtypes of breast tumors that have been put forward, there still exists a poor therapeutic response and prognosis. Magnetic fields, as a non-invasive therapy, have shown anti-...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7215396/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32331350 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21082952 |
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author | Xu, Aoshu Wang, Qian Lin, Tingting |
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description | Breast cancer is a common malignancy threatening women’s health around the world. Despite improved treatments for different subtypes of breast tumors that have been put forward, there still exists a poor therapeutic response and prognosis. Magnetic fields, as a non-invasive therapy, have shown anti-tumor effects in vitro and in vivo; however, the detailed mechanisms involved are still not clear. In this study, we found that in exposure to low-frequency magnetic fields (LF-MFs) with an intensity of 1 mT and frequencies of 50, 125, 200, and 275 Hz, separately, the proliferation of breast cancer cells was inhibited and LF-MF with 200 Hz reached the optimum inhibition effect, on exposure time-dependently. Notably, we found that exposure to LF-MF led to MCF-7 and ZR-75-1 cell apoptosis and cell cycle arrest. Moreover, we also discovered that LF-MF effectively increased the level of reactive oxygen species (ROS), suppressed the PI3K/AKT signaling pathway, and activated glycogen synthase kinase-3β (GSK-3β). We demonstrated that the GSK3β activity contributed to LF-MF-induced cell proliferation inhibition and apoptosis, while the underlying mechanism was associated with the inhibition of PI3K/AKT through increasing the intracellular ROS accumulation. These results indicate that LF-MF with a specific frequency may be an attractive therapy to treat breast cancers. |
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spelling | pubmed-72153962020-05-18 Low-Frequency Magnetic Fields (LF-MFs) Inhibit Proliferation by Triggering Apoptosis and Altering Cell Cycle Distribution in Breast Cancer Cells Xu, Aoshu Wang, Qian Lin, Tingting Int J Mol Sci Article Breast cancer is a common malignancy threatening women’s health around the world. Despite improved treatments for different subtypes of breast tumors that have been put forward, there still exists a poor therapeutic response and prognosis. Magnetic fields, as a non-invasive therapy, have shown anti-tumor effects in vitro and in vivo; however, the detailed mechanisms involved are still not clear. In this study, we found that in exposure to low-frequency magnetic fields (LF-MFs) with an intensity of 1 mT and frequencies of 50, 125, 200, and 275 Hz, separately, the proliferation of breast cancer cells was inhibited and LF-MF with 200 Hz reached the optimum inhibition effect, on exposure time-dependently. Notably, we found that exposure to LF-MF led to MCF-7 and ZR-75-1 cell apoptosis and cell cycle arrest. Moreover, we also discovered that LF-MF effectively increased the level of reactive oxygen species (ROS), suppressed the PI3K/AKT signaling pathway, and activated glycogen synthase kinase-3β (GSK-3β). We demonstrated that the GSK3β activity contributed to LF-MF-induced cell proliferation inhibition and apoptosis, while the underlying mechanism was associated with the inhibition of PI3K/AKT through increasing the intracellular ROS accumulation. These results indicate that LF-MF with a specific frequency may be an attractive therapy to treat breast cancers. MDPI 2020-04-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7215396/ /pubmed/32331350 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21082952 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Xu, Aoshu Wang, Qian Lin, Tingting Low-Frequency Magnetic Fields (LF-MFs) Inhibit Proliferation by Triggering Apoptosis and Altering Cell Cycle Distribution in Breast Cancer Cells |
title | Low-Frequency Magnetic Fields (LF-MFs) Inhibit Proliferation by Triggering Apoptosis and Altering Cell Cycle Distribution in Breast Cancer Cells |
title_full | Low-Frequency Magnetic Fields (LF-MFs) Inhibit Proliferation by Triggering Apoptosis and Altering Cell Cycle Distribution in Breast Cancer Cells |
title_fullStr | Low-Frequency Magnetic Fields (LF-MFs) Inhibit Proliferation by Triggering Apoptosis and Altering Cell Cycle Distribution in Breast Cancer Cells |
title_full_unstemmed | Low-Frequency Magnetic Fields (LF-MFs) Inhibit Proliferation by Triggering Apoptosis and Altering Cell Cycle Distribution in Breast Cancer Cells |
title_short | Low-Frequency Magnetic Fields (LF-MFs) Inhibit Proliferation by Triggering Apoptosis and Altering Cell Cycle Distribution in Breast Cancer Cells |
title_sort | low-frequency magnetic fields (lf-mfs) inhibit proliferation by triggering apoptosis and altering cell cycle distribution in breast cancer cells |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7215396/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32331350 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21082952 |
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