Department of Oncology, Affiliated Hospital of Yanbian University, Yanji City, Jilin Province, People's Republic of China.
Jilin Cancer Hospital, Changchun, China.
Cancer Cell Int. 2014 Jan 29;14(1):10. doi: 10.1186/1475-2867-14-10.
Although advanced gastric cancer has many limitations and response rate is marginal in chemotherapy. Overexpression of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2(HER-2/neu) gene and its protein are associated with increased cell division and a high rate of tumor growth and have been reported in several malignancies. Especially, approximately 30% of breast cancer patients have overexpression of HER-2/neu protein and the overexpression metastasize faster, induces resistance of the chemotherapy and down-regulate function of estrogen receptor. Recombinant humanized anti-HER2 antibody (Herceptin) inhibits proliferation of HER-2/neu overexpressing tumor cells and the use of that in combination in metastatic breast cancer have increased cytotoxicity of chemotherapeutic agents.
We evaluated the expression of HER-2/neu protein in gastric cell lines by FACS and then comparing the cytotoxicity in chemotherapeutics (doxorubicin, cisplatin, paclitaxel, 5-FU) alone and in combination with Herceptin according to the expression of HER-2/neu protein by MTT assay.
According to HER-2/neu expression level, effect of anti-cancer agents was observed differently in combination of Herceptin with chemotherapeutic agents. This suggests that HER-2/neu expression level can be applied standard of combination drug selection in combination of Herceptin With chemotherapeutic agents in gastric cancer.
尽管晚期胃癌的化疗效果有限,反应率也较低,但人表皮生长因子受体 2(HER-2/neu)基因及其蛋白的过度表达与细胞分裂增加和肿瘤生长速度加快有关,已在多种恶性肿瘤中报道。特别是,约 30%的乳腺癌患者存在 HER-2/neu 蛋白过度表达,过度表达会导致肿瘤更快转移,诱导化疗耐药,并下调雌激素受体功能。重组人源化抗 HER2 抗体(赫赛汀)可抑制 HER-2/neu 过度表达肿瘤细胞的增殖,将其与转移性乳腺癌联合应用可提高化疗药物的细胞毒性。
我们通过流式细胞术评估了 HER-2/neu 蛋白在胃细胞系中的表达,然后通过 MTT 测定根据 HER-2/neu 蛋白的表达比较了单独使用和联合使用赫赛汀时化疗药物(阿霉素、顺铂、紫杉醇、5-FU)的细胞毒性。
根据 HER-2/neu 表达水平,赫赛汀联合化疗药物的抗癌效果不同。这表明 HER-2/neu 表达水平可作为胃癌中赫赛汀联合化疗药物选择的标准。