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In order to evaluate the relationship between MDR of ovarian cancer and expression of neutral glycosphingolipids(N-GSLs) in ovarian cancer cell lines, the effects of TAM and VRP on the growth of COC1/DDP were assayed by MTT method. N-GSLs of the cells were isolated and purified with the modified Hakamoris method and analysed by HPTLC. The results showed that the expression of N-GSLs was different between parent cell lines and resistant cell sublines, the level of CMH was higher in COC1/DDP than in COC1. TAM and VRP could render multidrug-resistant cells sensitive to chemotherapy, while the level of CMH concomitantly was sharply decreased. It suggested that the expression of N-GSLs is associated with MDR of ovarian cancer, and CMH may be a kind of MDR related glycolipids in ovarian cancer.
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To investigate the role of tumor multidrug resistance (MDR) associated with CMH in the immunological evasion of MDR tumor cells, CMH was separated from neutral glycolipids of KBv 200by column chromatography, and the expression of B7 in DC was detected by flow cytometry. The results showed that the expression of B7 in DC was inhibited by CMH, it suggested the tumor MDR associated with glycolipids may inhibit human immune response by its effects on DC.
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In order to study the relationship between the expression of neutral glycosphingolipids(N-GSLs) and MDR, N-GSLs in MDR cell line KBv 200 and its parental cell line KB were studied. The N-GSLs were extracted and purified from the KB and KBv 200 cells according to the modified method of Hakomori, then analysed by High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC). The effects of PPMP on the expression of N-GSLs in KBv 200 cell line were also studied by the above method, its reversion on the KBv 200 cells to Vincristine (VCR) was examined by MTT method. The results showed that the levels of CMH and CDH in KBv 200 cells were higher than in KB cells, CMH was much more markedly increased, PPMP could reverse MDR by inhibiting CMH synthesis. It suggested that CMH is MDR associated N-GSLs in KBv 200 cell line, and inhibition of CMH expression in tumor cells maybe a new way to reverse MDR.
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To investigate a simple method visualizing neutral glycosphingolipid (N-GSLs) with iodine vapor, N-GSLs were isolated from the normal brain tissue of human by a modificated method of Hakomori, and then analyzed by HPTLC and visualized respectively by spraying aniline-diphenylamine-H 3PO 4 reagent and immersing into a jar full of iodine vapor. The plate should be kept 110℃ for 5 min until the coloration emerged by using the first method,and the N-GSLs were slowly made visible with a blue coloration. The N-GSLs were immediately made visible with a red-brown coloration by using the second method, and the color visible on the plates could emerge again after vaporized. Moreover, the second method was more sensitive than the first. The location of individual N-GSLs was the same by using the two methods. It suggested that a new method for visualizing N-GSLs has been established, it is simple, economic, rapid, innocuity and more sensitive, and the results are reproducible.