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Live Imaging to Quantify Cellular Radiosensitivity in Patient-Derived Tumor Organoids
Published on: April 5, 2024
[Study on the effect of grape seed proanthocyanidins on increasing the radiosensitivity for X-ray]
Xiao-jing Pan1, Min Wang, Xue-xi Wang
1Stomaological hospital, Lanzhou university, Lanzhou 730000, China. panxj@lzu.edu.cn
Objective:
To investigate the effect of Grape Seed Proanthocyanidins (GSPs) on enhancing the radiosensitivity of human hepatic carcinoma cell line HepG2, human cervical cancer cell line Hela and human leukemia cell line K562 for X-ray in vitro.
Methods:
The killing effect of GSPs combined with X-ray on cells was evaluated by SRB and clone formation assay.
Results:
The GSPs had obvious cytotoxicity on three cell lines in a dose-dependent and time-dependent manners. However, inhibition rate of different cell line were quite different, the strongest one was human leukemia K562 cells and the others were weak. The sensitization ranges calculated by univariate analysis were 6.25-12.5 microg/mL for human leukemia K562 cells. Sensitization enhancement ratio was 1.94 using curve fitting method for K562 cells.
Conclusion:
GSPs can obviously enhance the radiosensitivity of cancer cells in vitro. The mechanism of sensitization effect may be related to the effects of GSPs on oxygen balance and cell cycle.
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