Statin induces apoptosis of human colon cancer cells and downregulation of insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor via proapoptotic ERK activation

HJ Jang, EM Hong, SW Park, HW Byun… - Oncology …, 2016 - spandidos-publications.com
simvastatin inhibited the proliferation of colon cancer cells and suppressed the expression of
IGF-1R and IGF-1-induced ERK/Akt activation in HT-29 cells. … time that simvastatin induced

[HTML][HTML] Simvastatin-induced breast cancer cell death and deactivation of PI3K/Akt and MAPK/ERK signalling are reversed by metabolic products of the mevalonate …

T Wang, S Seah, X Loh, CW Chan, M Hartman… - Oncotarget, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
statins suppress proliferation and induce apoptosis of breast … time-related responses
upon exposure to simvastatin, … Thus, simvastatin appears to negatively regulate activation of …

Investigation of simvastatin-induced apoptosis and cell cycle arrest in cancer stem cells of MCF-7

M Afzali, M Vatankhah, SN Ostad - Journal of cancer research and …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
… programmed cell death or apoptosis in cancerous cells.[ 14 … Fluorescence-activated cell
sorter was used to examine the … [ 31 ] Furthermore an inverse correlation between expression of …

Simvastatin induces cell cycle arrest and inhibits proliferation of bladder cancer cells via PPARγ signalling pathway

G Wang, R Cao, Y Wang, G Qian, HC Dan, W Jiang… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
… as a close correlation between bladder cancer and cell cycle. (c) … BCa cells simvastatin had
no significant effect on apoptosis … could be activated by simvastatin-induced dysregulation of …

[HTML][HTML] Simvastatin suppresses proliferation and migration in non-small cell lung cancer via pyroptosis

F Wang, W Liu, J Ning, J Wang, Y Lang… - … journal of biological …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death … simvastatin and pyroptosis of the
human lung cancer cells A549 … In our study, pyroptosis induced by simvastatin by activating

Mevalonate cascade inhibition by simvastatin induces the intrinsic apoptosis pathway via depletion of isoprenoids in tumor cells

J Alizadeh, AA Zeki, N Mirzaei, S Tewary… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
… Here we show that simvastatin-induced apoptosis was … Simvastatin (10 μM, 48 h) failed to
activate caspase-8 but did … with cancer was associated with reduced cancer-related mortality …

[HTML][HTML] The potential use of simvastatin for cancer treatment: A review

JA Duarte, ALB de Barros, EA Leite - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2021 - Elsevier
… -9, a protein related to tumor cell metastasis; 3) Inhibition of … ) Activation of caspase-9 and
caspase-3, which provokes cellsimvastatin inhibits cancer cell growth by inducing apoptosis

The apoptotic effect of simvastatin via the upregulation of BIM in nonsmall cell lung cancer cells

HY Lee, IK Kim, HI Lee, JY Mo, CD Yeo… - Experimental lung …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Cell proliferation and expression of apoptosis-related and EGFR … in EGFR-TKI-induced
apoptosis. In EGFR-sensitive lung … cancer by activation of the nuclear factor-κB and inhibition of …

Simvastatin inhibits cell proliferation and migration in human anaplastic thyroid cancer

MC Chen, YC Tsai, JH Tseng, JJ Liou, S Horng… - International journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
… illustrated that simvastatin diminished the activation of RhoA … survival of cancer cells by
inducing growth arrest and apoptosis [19,… Simvastatin could reduce metastasis-related activity by …

Simvastatin-induced cell cycle arrest through inhibition of STAT3/SKP2 axis and activation of AMPK to promote p27 and p21 accumulation in hepatocellular carcinoma …

ST Wang, HJ Ho, JT Lin, JJ Shieh, CY Wu - Cell death & disease, 2017 - nature.com
… To further investigate whether cell cycle-related molecule expression levels … Simvastatin
inhibits cell growth and induces apoptosis and G0/G1 cell cycle arrest in hepatic cancer cells. Int …