[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

Statins inhibit proliferation and induce apoptosis in triple-negative breast cancer cells

S O'Grady, J Crown, MJ Duffy - Medical Oncology, 2022 - Springer
Cell sensitivity to the two statins was found to be correlated (D) although significantly …
cancer cells was due to activation of apoptotic processes. We treated 3 TNBC and 1 non-TNBC …

Simvastatin Inhibits Tumor Growth and Migration by Mediating Caspase-1–Dependent Pyroptosis in Glioblastoma Multiforme

S Yang, C Xie, T Guo, H Li, N Li, S Zhou, X Wang - World Neurosurgery, 2022 - Elsevier
Simvastatin inhibited the activation of pyroptosis in GBM cells. U87 and … could regulate
pyroptosis of tumor cells. … also suppressed, results that were consistent with other related studies. …

Inhibitory effect of simvastatin in nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells

Z Ma, W Wang, Y Zhang, M Yao… - Experimental and …, 2019 - spandidos-publications.com
Statins can inhibit phosphorylation and activation of Akt and MAPK mitogenic signaling in …
In conclusion, in this study, it was demonstrated that simvastatin induced apoptosis by …

Combination simvastatin and metformin synergistically inhibits endometrial cancer cell growth

JS Kim, J Turbov, R Rosales, LG Thaete… - Gynecologic …, 2019 - Elsevier
… Autophagy and apoptosis are interrelated via complex crosstalk … +SIM-induced apoptosis
and synergistic growth inhibition, … apoptosis induction and AMPK activation with downstream …

Statins induce cell apoptosis through a modulation of AKT/FOXO1 pathway in prostate cancer cells

JL Deng, R Zhang, Y Zeng, YS Zhu… - Cancer Management and …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
… The AKT kinase is activated by hormones, growth factors, … , we hypothesized that statin-induced
apoptosis in PC3 cells is … such as tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand …

[HTML][HTML] Simvastatin induces breast cancer cell death through oxidative stress up-regulating miR-140-5p

F Bai, Z Yu, X Gao, J Gong, L Fan, F Liu - Aging (Albany NY), 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… the effects of statins on proliferation and apoptosis in the ER-… cancer cell line MDA-MB-231
via activating ROS-induced … To further determine the correlation between miR-140-5p and …

Therapeutic effects of statins against lung adenocarcinoma via p53 mutant-mediated apoptosis

CW Chou, CH Lin, TH Hsiao, CC Lo, CY Hsieh… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
… the correlation between statin use and lung cancer prognosis … higher simvastatin-induced
inhibition in lung cancer cells … and the Ras/Raf/mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase (MEK)/…

Simvastatin evokes an unpredicted antagonism for tamoxifen in MCF-7 breast cancer cells

AB Ibrahim, HF Zaki, W Wadie, MM Omran… - Cancer Management …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
… Citation3 In addition, it induces apoptosis of cancer cells … Moreover, cancer cells may depend
on bcl-2, or related … of TAM and activates estrogen receptor α (ERα) and therefore induces

Simvastatin induces apoptosis in medulloblastoma brain tumor cells via mevalonate cascade prenylation substrates

K Sheikholeslami, A Ali Sher, S Lockman, D Kroft… - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
… statin-induced apoptotic cell death in MCF-7 breast cancer cells, … Caspase activation
patterns confirmed our flow cytometry … cell lines, revealing prenylation of the cholesterol-related