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ONCOLOGY REPORTS
Volume 44, Issue 2, Pages 650-660Publisher
SPANDIDOS PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.3892/or.2020.7632
Keywords
osteosarcoma; cisplatin; cadmium chloride; forkhead box protein M1; drug sensitivity
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- Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Project [2017A020215080]
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Osteosarcoma is a highly malignant disease and is associated with a poor patient prognosis and a high mortality rate. Disease prognosis significantly correlates with chemotherapeutic responses. Cadmium is a heavy metal with specific effects on bone, but its benefits for osteosarcoma treatment have not been characterized. In the present study, cadmium chloride was used to treat MG63 osteosarcoma cells, and their gene expression profiles were assessed by GeneChip technology. We found that forkhead box protein M1 (FOXM1) was downregulated by cadmium chloride, and lentiviral-mediated silencing of FOXM1 confirmed a role for this factor in the cisplatin resistance of MG63 cells. In nude mice, cadmium chloride enhanced the sensitivity of osteosarcoma to cisplatin, an effect mediated by FOXM1. Collectively, these data indicate that cadmium chloride can alter the sensitivity of osteosarcoma cells to cisplatin through FOXM1, highlighting it as a potential therapeutic target and prognostic factor for osteosarcoma.
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