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Prostate Apoptotic Induction and NFκB Suppression by Dammarolic Acid: Mechanistic Insight into Onco-Therapeutic Action of an Aglycone Asiaticoside

Prostate cancer (PCa) is addressed as the second most common form of onco-threat worldwide and is usually considered as the major cause of mortality in men. Recent times have seen a surge in exploration of plant-derived components for alternative therapeutical interventions against different oncolog...

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Autores principales: Alafnan, Ahmed, Hussain, Talib, Rizvi, Syed Mohd Danish, Moin, Afrasim, Alamri, Abdulwahab
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8928952/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34449548
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cimb43020066
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author Alafnan, Ahmed
Hussain, Talib
Rizvi, Syed Mohd Danish
Moin, Afrasim
Alamri, Abdulwahab
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Hussain, Talib
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Moin, Afrasim
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description Prostate cancer (PCa) is addressed as the second most common form of onco-threat worldwide and is usually considered as the major cause of mortality in men. Recent times have seen a surge in exploration of plant-derived components for alternative therapeutical interventions against different oncological malignancies. Dammarolic acid or Asiatic acid (AsA) is an aglycone asiaticoside that has been reported for its efficacy in several ailments including cancer. The current study aimed to investigate the anti-proliferative potency of AsA against human prostate cancer PC-3 cells. Purified AsA was diluted and PC-3 cells were exposed to 20, 40, and 80 µM concentration and incubated for 24 h. Post-exposure, PC-3 cells showcased a substantial loss of their viability at 20 µM (p < 0.05), moreover, this reduction in cell viability escalated proportionally with an increase in AsA at concentrations of 40 and 80 µM (p < 0.01; p < 0.001) respectively. AsA-impelled loss of cellular viability was also evident from the acridine orange-stained photomicrographs, which was also used to quantify the viable and apoptotic cells using Image J software. Additionally, quantification of ROS within PC-3 cells also exhibited an increase in DCF-DA-mediated fluorescence intensity post-exposure to AsA in a dose-dependent manner. AsA-induced apoptosis in PC-3 cells was shown to be associated with augmented activity of caspase-3 proportionally to the AsA concentrations. Thus, initially, this exploratory study explicated that AsA treatment leads to anti-proliferative effects in PC-3 cells by enhancing oxidative stress and inciting apoptosis en route to onset of nuclear fragmentation.
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spelling pubmed-89289522022-06-04 Prostate Apoptotic Induction and NFκB Suppression by Dammarolic Acid: Mechanistic Insight into Onco-Therapeutic Action of an Aglycone Asiaticoside Alafnan, Ahmed Hussain, Talib Rizvi, Syed Mohd Danish Moin, Afrasim Alamri, Abdulwahab Curr Issues Mol Biol Article Prostate cancer (PCa) is addressed as the second most common form of onco-threat worldwide and is usually considered as the major cause of mortality in men. Recent times have seen a surge in exploration of plant-derived components for alternative therapeutical interventions against different oncological malignancies. Dammarolic acid or Asiatic acid (AsA) is an aglycone asiaticoside that has been reported for its efficacy in several ailments including cancer. The current study aimed to investigate the anti-proliferative potency of AsA against human prostate cancer PC-3 cells. Purified AsA was diluted and PC-3 cells were exposed to 20, 40, and 80 µM concentration and incubated for 24 h. Post-exposure, PC-3 cells showcased a substantial loss of their viability at 20 µM (p < 0.05), moreover, this reduction in cell viability escalated proportionally with an increase in AsA at concentrations of 40 and 80 µM (p < 0.01; p < 0.001) respectively. AsA-impelled loss of cellular viability was also evident from the acridine orange-stained photomicrographs, which was also used to quantify the viable and apoptotic cells using Image J software. Additionally, quantification of ROS within PC-3 cells also exhibited an increase in DCF-DA-mediated fluorescence intensity post-exposure to AsA in a dose-dependent manner. AsA-induced apoptosis in PC-3 cells was shown to be associated with augmented activity of caspase-3 proportionally to the AsA concentrations. Thus, initially, this exploratory study explicated that AsA treatment leads to anti-proliferative effects in PC-3 cells by enhancing oxidative stress and inciting apoptosis en route to onset of nuclear fragmentation. MDPI 2021-08-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8928952/ /pubmed/34449548 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cimb43020066 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Alafnan, Ahmed
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Prostate Apoptotic Induction and NFκB Suppression by Dammarolic Acid: Mechanistic Insight into Onco-Therapeutic Action of an Aglycone Asiaticoside
title Prostate Apoptotic Induction and NFκB Suppression by Dammarolic Acid: Mechanistic Insight into Onco-Therapeutic Action of an Aglycone Asiaticoside
title_full Prostate Apoptotic Induction and NFκB Suppression by Dammarolic Acid: Mechanistic Insight into Onco-Therapeutic Action of an Aglycone Asiaticoside
title_fullStr Prostate Apoptotic Induction and NFκB Suppression by Dammarolic Acid: Mechanistic Insight into Onco-Therapeutic Action of an Aglycone Asiaticoside
title_full_unstemmed Prostate Apoptotic Induction and NFκB Suppression by Dammarolic Acid: Mechanistic Insight into Onco-Therapeutic Action of an Aglycone Asiaticoside
title_short Prostate Apoptotic Induction and NFκB Suppression by Dammarolic Acid: Mechanistic Insight into Onco-Therapeutic Action of an Aglycone Asiaticoside
title_sort prostate apoptotic induction and nfκb suppression by dammarolic acid: mechanistic insight into onco-therapeutic action of an aglycone asiaticoside
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8928952/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34449548
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cimb43020066
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