range as day 4 and day 14. A state of redox imbalance
between oxidants and antioxidants is a common
hallmark of cancer resistance to treatment. High ROS
exposure was given to increase oxidants within the
cell and cause ROS-mediated damaged biomolecules
such as DNA and protein. (Ziech et al., 2011) We
suggested that the stable MDA concentration between
MDA treated group showed the ability of BCSCs to
maintain homeostasis and evaded cancer cell death by
developing an antioxidant defence. SOD and catalase
are the best enzymatic antioxidants on scavenging
ROS (Banerjee et al., 2017) suggested that they were
effectively scavenged free radicals and kept the
amount of MDA in doxorubicin-induced BCSCs
balanced. After exposure of andrographolide on day
20, there was a trend that the MDA level of
doxorubicin-induced BCSCs was increasing.
Andrographolide may have prooxidant and
antioxidant characteristics. Previous studies have
shown that andrographolide can trigger intracellular
ROS formation, contributing to apoptosis in cancer
cells. (Banerjee et al., 2017) In this study,
andrographolide did not cause a significant increase
in oxidative stress level, but it could suppress the
antioxidant enzyme that scavenges ROS, MnSOD.
Thus, we demonstrated that andrographolide and
doxorubicin synergistically induced cell death by
MnSOD suppression.
5 CONCLUSIONS
Andrographolide repeated treatment to BCSC can
decrease MnSOD activity but not catalase and
oxidative stress and is closely related to decreased
cell viability with low sensitivity to doxorubicin.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This research was supported by a grant from the
Penelitian Dasar Unggulan Perguruan Tinggi
(PDUPT).
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