Drug Combination Details
| General Information of the Combination (ID: C39248) | |||||
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| Name | Arsenic trioxide NP Info | + | 5-fluorouracil Drug Info | ||
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| Disease |
Colorectal cancer
[ICD-11: 2B91]
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Investigative | [1] | ||
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Hepatocellular carcinoma
[ICD-11: 2C12]
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Investigative | [2] | |||
| 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)
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Down-regulation | Expression | TYMS | Molecule Info |
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| In-vitro Model | HT29 | CVCL_A8EZ | Colorectal adenocarcinoma | Mus musculus | ||
| Experimental
Result(s) |
Arsenic trioxide suppresses thymidylate synthase in 5-FU-resistant colorectal cancer cell line HT29 In Vitro re-sensitizing cells to 5-FU. | |||||
| Augmenting Drug Sensitivity | Click to Show/Hide | |||||
| Experiment 1 Reporting the Effect of This Combination | [2] | |||||
| Molecule(s)
Regulation |
Down-regulation | Expression | BCL-2 | Molecule Info |
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| Up-regulation | Expression | CASP3 | Molecule Info |
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| Up-regulation | Expression | CASP8 | Molecule Info |
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| Up-regulation | Expression | CASP9 | Molecule Info |
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| Up-regulation | Expression | TRAIL-R2 | Molecule Info |
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| In-vitro Model | Hep-G2 | CVCL_0027 | Hepatocellular carcinoma | Homo sapiens | ||
| Experimental
Result(s) |
As2O3 in combination with 5-FU treatment caused up-regulation of DR5, caspase 3, caspase 8, and caspase 9, and down-regulation of BCL-2, but had no effect of DR4. | |||||