Research Article

Curcumin Increased the Sensitivity of Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer to Cisplatin through the Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Pathway

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Curcumin increases the sensitivity to DDP-resistant NSCLC cells through regulating ER stress. After A549/DDP and H1299/DDP cells were cotreated with DDP and curcumin, salubrinal was used as an ER stress inhibitor to treat A549/DDP and H1299/DDP cells. (a–d) The expressions of CHOP, GRP78, XBP-1, ATF6, and caspase-4 were detected by qPCR and western blotting. (e) CCK-8 was used to detect cell viability; (f) the cell apoptosis rate was detected by flow cytometry. (g) Western blotting was used to measure the expressions of cleaved caspase-3 and cleaved PARP. Experiment data are presented as the mean ± standard deviation (SD), each experiment was conducted 3 times. , when compared with the curcumin + DDP + DMSO group; DDP, cisplatin; NSCLC, non-small-cell lung cancer; ER stress, endoplasmic reticulum stress.
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