Effects of statins on brain tumors: a review

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作者
Afshari, Amir R. [1 ]
Mollazadeh, Hamid [1 ,2 ]
Henney, Neil C. [3 ]
Jamialahmad, Tannaz [4 ,5 ]
Sahebkar, Amirhossein [6 ,7 ,8 ]
机构
[1] North Khorasan Univ Med Sci, Dept Physiol & Pharmacol, Fac Med, Bojnurd, Iran
[2] North Khorasan Univ Med Sci, Nat Prod & Med Plants Res Ctr, Bojnurd, Iran
[3] Liverpool John Moores Univ, Pharm & Biomol Sci, Liverpool, Merseyside, England
[4] Islamic Azad Univ, Quchan Branch, Dept Food Sci & Technol, Quchan, Iran
[5] Mashhad Univ Med Sci, Dept Nutr, Fac Med, Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan, Iran
[6] Mashhad Univ Med Sci, Pharmaceut Technol Inst, Biotechnol Res Ctr, Mashhad 9177948564, Razavi Khorasan, Iran
[7] Mashhad Univ Med Sci, Neurogen Inflammat Res Ctr, Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan, Iran
[8] Polish Mothers Mem Hosp Res Inst PMMHRI, Lodz, Poland
关键词
Statin; Cholesterol; Antitumor; Glioblastoma multiforme; Apoptosis; HMG-COA REDUCTASE; CELL-CYCLE ARREST; SIMVASTATIN INDUCES APOPTOSIS; HUMAN GLIOBLASTOMA CELLS; CANCER STEM-CELLS; IN-VITRO; INHIBIT PROLIFERATION; INDUCED CYTOTOXICITY; UP-REGULATION; GLIOMA-CELLS;
D O I
10.1016/j.semcancer.2020.08.002
中图分类号
R73 [肿瘤学];
学科分类号
100214 ;
摘要
Evidence from preclinical studies suggests that the competitive HMG-CoA reductase (HMGCR) inhibitors universally known as 'statins,' in addition to being powerful drugs that reduce cholesterol and improve cardiovascular risk, also have promising antitumor properties. Statins appear to enhance the treatment outcome of various cancers before and concurrent with other cancer treatment interventions. Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), a particularly invasive cerebral tumor associated with high mortality, holds a poor median overall survival (OS) of around one year after surgical resection followed by concurrent radiation and chemotherapy. Recently, statins have increasingly appeared as potential adjuvant drugs for the treatment of GBM because of their potential to suppress cell growth, survival, migration, metastasis, inflammation, angiogenesis, and promote apoptosis during both in vitro and in vivo studies. However, the clinical outcomes of statins on the survival of patients with GBM are still controversial. This study aims to review and address some of the documented effects of statin drugs when focusing entirely on cancer treatment, especially GBM, including concurrent statin therapy with chemotherapeutic agents.
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