Effects of combined injection of Angelica sinensis polysaccharide and cytarabine on bone marrow mononuclear cells of transplanted human leukemia mice / 中草药

ABSTRACT

Objective: To explore the effects and the possible mechanism of combined injection of Angelica sinensis polysaccharide (ASP) and cytarabine (Ara-C) on the bone marrow mononuclear cells (BMMCs) of the transplanted human leukemia mouse model. Methods: K562 cells (2×107)were transplanted into the tail vein of mice to establish the transplanted human leukemia NOD/SCID mouse model. Then the leukemia mice were randomly divided into model, ASP, Ara-C, and ASP + Ara-C groups. After the 30 d transplantation, the mice were ip injected with ASP (200 mg/kg/d), Ara-C (2.5 mg/kg/d), and ASP (200 mg/kg/d) + Ara-C (2.5 mg/kg/d), respectively for 14 d, and the mice in the model group were injected with saline (equal volume and time). The next day after the treatment, the eyeball blood was collected to detect the amount and classification of white blood cells (WBC). The femurs were taken to count BMMCs of each femur. The proliferation of BMMCs was detected by CCK-8; The distribution of cell cycles was analyzed by flow cytometry (FCM); The capability of colony forming was examined by CFU-Mix cultivation; The ratio of the SA-β-Gal staining positive BMMCs was counted; The aging related proteins of P16, Rb, CDK4, and CyclinD1 were detected by Western blotting. Results: Compared with the model group, ASP or Ara-C injected alone and their combined injection can obviously reduce the amount of the peripheral blood WBC, the percentage of neutrophiles, and the number of femur BMMCs; effectively inhibit the proliferation of BMMCs, CFU-Mix forming, and the ratio of S stages; markedly raise the percentage of lymphocytes, ratio of G1 stages, and the percentage of SA-β-Gal positive cells; down-regulate the expression of the aging related proteins of CDK4 and CyclinD1; and up-regulate the expression of P16 and Rb protein. The effects of ASP + Ara-C group were much better than those in the other groups. Conclusion: The aging mechanism of BMMCs for the transplanted human leukemia mice induced by ASP and Ara-C may be ascribed to the regulation of the expression of the aging related proteins of P16, Rb, CDK4, and CyclinD1. Our research provides a new idea to treat leukemia in clinic.