Journal: Cancers
Article Title: Spironolactone, a Classic Potassium-Sparing Diuretic, Reduces Survivin Expression and Chemosensitizes Cancer Cells to Non-DNA-Damaging Anticancer Drugs
doi: 10.3390/cancers11101550
Figure Lengend Snippet: Spironolactone decreases survivin expression and survivin reductions imitate the chemosensitizing effects of spironolactone. Cells treated with or without 25 µM spironolactone (SPL) for three days were subjected to an immunoblot analysis for survivin expression ( a , b ). YM155, a pharmacological survivin inhibitor, at the concentration of 10 nM and the knockdown of survivin reduced survivin expression in cancer cells (A549) ( c ). The pharmacological or genetic inhibition of survivin sensitized cancer cells (A549) to chemotherapeutic reagents (GEM, gemcitabine, 0.1 µM; OSI, osimertinib, 2 µM) ( d ). * p < 0.05.
Article Snippet: The human non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cell lines A549 and PC-9 were obtained from the Riken BioResource Center (Tsukuba, Japan).
Techniques: Expressing, Western Blot, Concentration Assay, Knockdown, Inhibition