青蒿素对肿瘤细胞凋亡相关基因的调控

青蒿素(artemisinin)及其衍生物是一类传统抗疟药.近年来有研究表明:青蒿素可通过抑制增殖、诱导凋亡、抗血管生成等发挥抗肿瘤作用.而其诱导凋亡作用是近期学者研究的重点,多数学者认为其主要通过上调促凋亡基因(Bax)、下调抗凋亡基因(Survivin、Bcl-2)、协调双向调节基因(Bid、Bim)抗肿瘤,最终引起特征性的形态学改变.

Artemisinins regulate apoptosis genes of neoplasm

Artemisinin and its derivatives,which are known as traditional antimalarial drugs,have anticancer activities by inhibiting cell proliferation,inducing apoptosis of tumor cells,and resisting angiogenesis,etc.The activity of inducing apoptosis has become high-light for studies recently.Most scholars believed this activity was obtained by increasing apoptosis-inducing genes(Bax),decreasing anti-apoptosis genes(Survivin,Bcl-2),and regulating two-ways controlling genes,and finally led to the distinctive morphological changes.