Synergy of taxol combined with irradiation on apoptosis induction in human nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell line / 中华放射肿瘤学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To study the synergistic effect of taxol and irradiation on programmed cell death induction in the human nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell line (CNE) in vitro.Methods Cell viability was evaluated by clonogenic assay. Cell cycle perturbation was assessed by flow cytometric analysis and apoptosis was determined with TUNEL.Results The intensity of cytotoxicity depended on the taxol dose used to CNE cells during the first 24 hrs. A G 2+M block was present with exposure to the drug of 100 nmol/L. When CNE cells were irradiated after 24 hrs of taxol exposure, synergistic effect was demonstrated with a taxol SER of 1.23. The same level apoptosis was induced by 10 ?mol/L taxol for 24 hrs or 2 Gy X-ray radiation in CNE cells.By both,the increase of induced apoptotic cells was over their additive results. Conclusion Taxol combined with radiation is able to enhance the radiosensitivity in the CNE cell line.