Drug Combination Details
General Information of the Combination (ID: C15089) | |||||
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Name | Dihydroartemisinin NP Info | + | Doxorubicin Drug Info | ||
Structure |
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Disease |
Breast cancer
[ICD-11: 2C60]
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Investigative | [1] |
Combinatorial Therapeutic Effect(s) Validated Clinically or Experimentally | ||||||
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α. Enhancing Drug Efficacy by This Combination | ||||||
Achieving Therapeutic Synergy | Click to Show/Hide | |||||
Experiment 1 Reporting the Effect of This Combination | [1] | |||||
Molecule(s)
Regulation |
Up-regulation | Cleavage | CASP7 | Molecule Info |
Pathway MAP
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Up-regulation | Cleavage | CASP9 | Molecule Info |
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Up-regulation | Cleavage | PARP1 | Molecule Info |
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Biological
Regulation |
Induction | Loss of mitochondrial membrane potential | ||||
In-vitro Model | MCF-7 | CVCL_0031 | Invasive breast carcinoma | Homo sapiens | ||
MDA-MB-231 | CVCL_0062 | Breast adenocarcinoma | Homo sapiens | |||
T-47D | CVCL_0553 | Invasive breast carcinoma | Homo sapiens | |||
Experimental
Result(s) |
The combinative treatment remarkably decreased the mitochondrial membrane potential and activated caspase cascades more than the mono-treatment. |
References | ||||
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Reference 1 | Synergistic anti-cancer activity of the combination of dihydroartemisinin and doxorubicin in breast cancer cells. Pharmacol Rep. 2013;65(2):453-9. |



