机构：[1]Departments of Radiology, The Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medicine University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050000, P.R. China[2]Departments of Anesthesiology, The Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medicine University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050000, P.R. China
Liver cancer ranks as the second leading cause of cancer-associated mortality worldwide. To date, neither current ablation therapy nor chemotherapy are considered ideal in improving the outcome of liver cancer. Therefore, more effective therapies for treating this devastating disease are urgently required. Interventional therapy has been used for numerous years in the treatment of different types of cancer, and is characterized by the direct delivery of anticancer drugs into the tumor. It has been reported that antimalarial chloroquine diphosphate (CQ) exerts effective anticancer activity against several types of cancer. However, its effect on liver cancer remains unclear. Therefore, in the present study, 2D monolayer cell culture and 3D spheroid in vitro models, and a rat model, were utilized to investigate the effect of CQ on liver cancer. CQ demonstrated an effective anticancer effect on HepG2 cells and 3D liver spheroids. Furthermore, the drug significantly inhibited cell growth and viability in the 2D and 3D in vitro models. The CQ-based intervention treatment effectively attenuated tumor size and weight, increased food intake and consumption of drinking water, and improved body weight and survival rate of rats in the in vivo model. In addition, treatment with CQ potently increased the expression levels of the apoptosis-related genes. Taken together, the findings of the present study may provide a novel insight into the development of safe and effective treatments for liver cancer.
基金：
Hebei Provincial Health Department (grant no. 20160623).
第一作者机构：[1]Departments of Radiology, The Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medicine University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050000, P.R. China
通讯作者：
通讯机构：[2]Departments of Anesthesiology, The Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medicine University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050000, P.R. China[*1]Department of Anesthesiology, The Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medicine University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050000, P.R. China
推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714)：
Hao Xiaoguang,Li Weijing.Chloroquine diphosphate suppresses liver cancer via inducing apoptosis in Wistar rats using interventional therapy[J].ONCOLOGY LETTERS.2021,21(3):doi:10.3892/ol.2021.12494.
APA：
Hao, Xiaoguang&Li, Weijing.(2021).Chloroquine diphosphate suppresses liver cancer via inducing apoptosis in Wistar rats using interventional therapy.ONCOLOGY LETTERS,21,(3)
MLA：
Hao, Xiaoguang,et al."Chloroquine diphosphate suppresses liver cancer via inducing apoptosis in Wistar rats using interventional therapy".ONCOLOGY LETTERS 21..3(2021)
