title: Resveratrol induces apoptosis in pancreatic cancer cells.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal human cancers with a very low survival rate of 5 years. Conventional cancer treatments including surgery, radiation, chemotherapy or combinations of these show little effect on this disease. Several proteins have been proved critical to the development and the progression of pancreatic cancer. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of resveratrol on apoptosis in pancreatic cancer cells.
  
  
  METHODS
  Several pancreatic cancer cell lines were screened by resveratrol, and its toxicity was tested by normal pancreatic cells. Western blotting was then performed to analyze the molecular mechanism of resveratrol induced apoptosis of pancreatic cancer cell lines.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In the screened pancreatic cancer cell lines, capan-2 and colo357 showed high sensitivity to resveratrol induced apoptosis. Resveratrol exhibited insignificant toxicity to normal pancreatic cells. In resveratrol sensitive cells, capan-2 and colo357, the activation of caspase-3 was detected and showed significant caspase-3 activation upon resveratrol treatment; p53 and p21 were also detected up-regulated upon resveratrol treatment.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Resveratrol provides a promising anti-tumor strategy to fight against pancreatic cancer.
authors: Department of Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Zhongda Hospital of Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210009, China. zhoujh@seu.edu.cn
authors: Jia-Hua
authors: JH
authors: Zhou
authors: Hai-Yan
authors: HY
authors: Cheng
authors: Ze-Qian
authors: ZQ
authors: Yu
authors: Dao-Wei
authors: DW
authors: He
authors: Zheng
authors: Z
authors: Pan
authors: De-Tong
authors: DT
authors: Yang
mesh_terms: D017209:Apoptosis / Q000187:drug effects*; D015153:Blotting, Western; D053148:Caspase 3 / Q000378:metabolism; D002470:Cell Survival / Q000187:drug effects; D006801:Humans; D020928:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases / Q000378:metabolism; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism; D000077185:Resveratrol; D013267:Stilbenes / Q000494:pharmacology*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D013267:Stilbenes; D020928:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases; D053148:Caspase 3; D000077185:Resveratrol