著者

Haitao FENG Akihiro KISHIMURA Takeshi MORI Yoshiki KATAYAMA

出版者

The Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry

雑誌

Analytical Sciences (ISSN:09106340)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.36, no.10, pp.1279-1283, 2020-10-10 (Released:2020-10-10)

参考文献数

28

被引用文献数

3

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In the early stage of tumor development, tumor-associated macrophages (TAM) works to suppress tumor growth by secreting soluble factors including nitric oxide (NO). L-Arginine (Arg) is a substrate of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) expressed in TAM. Here we examined whether NO produced from Arg by macrophages works to enhance the effect of the anti-cancer drug, doxorubicin (Dox) by using a co-culture system of cancer cells with macrophages. By employing colorimetric analyses methods (Griess Reagent and Cell Counting kit-8), we found that NO produced from Arg by co-cultured macrophages could enhance the cytotoxic effect of Dox to cancer cells. Moreover, we found that augmentation is affected by the order of the addition of Arg and Dox. A prior addition of Arg to Dox and simultaneous addition showed the same enhancement effect, but a prior addition of Dox to Arg abolished the augmentation. This suggests that the co-administration of Arg with Dox would be an effective treatment to improve chemo-therapies.