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Background and purpose:Somatostatin receptors have been found in a variety of tumors and are therefore amenable to treatment with somatostatin analogs, like octreotide. However, the study of SSTRs expression has been rarely studied in nasopharyngeal cancer.We investigated the expression of somatostatin receptors gene subtypes in human nasopharyngeal cancer cell line CNE_ 2 . Methods:We have harvested cultured human nasopharyngeal cancer cell line CNE_ 2 . Using both techniques, reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and immunohistochemical assay, we analysed mRNA of different subtypes of somatostatin receptors in human nasopharyngeal cancer cell line CNE_ 2 .Results:The positive rate of somatostatin receptors subtype SSTR_ 1 SSTR_ 2 SSTR_ 4 was manifested in the human nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell line CNE_ 2 by RT-PCR and immunohistochemical assay. According to immunohistochemical assay, SSTR_ 1 and SSTR_ 2A showed strongly positive expression and SSTR_ 3 and SSTR_ 5 negative expression,respectively.Conclusions:There are more than one SSTR subtypes expressed in the human nasopharyndeal carcinoma cell line CNE_ 2 . This study demonstrated the presence of SSTR_1,SSTR_ 2 in the human nasopharyndeal carcinoma cell line CNE_ 2 .
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Purpose:To investigate the effect of antineoplastic polypeptide from Buthus martensii venom (APBMV) on the cultured human promyelocytic leukemia cells HL 60 and hepatoma cell line SMMC 7721 and hepatoma H 22 bearing mice.Methods:MTT colorimetric method, growth inhibiting test and colony formation assay were used in the in vitro test. H 22 bearing mice were applied in the in vivo experiment. Through measuring tumor growth inhibitory rate(IR),white blood cell (WBC) number and spleen index (SI) ,we explored the influence of APBMV on H 22 bearing mice.Results:APBMV possessed stronger cytotoxicity on HL 60 cells and SMMC 7721 cells, and IC 50 was 10.74 ?g/ml and 11.33 ?g/ml , respectively. APBMV could dramatically inhibit their growths. There were obvious dosage response correlations. The IC 50 of HL 60 and SMMC 7721 at 24h, 48h and 96h were 19.41 ?g/ml, 9.90 ?g/ml, 11.41 ?g/ml and 15.87 ?g/ml, 13.05 ?g/ml, 8.70 ?g/ml, respectively. When the concentration of APBMV exceeded 8 ?g/ml, the colony formation rate of SMMC 7721 cells decreased dramatically ( P 0.05).Tumor growth of H 22 bearing mice was markedly inhibited by APBMV,the growth inhibiting rate was reached 40.30% ( P