Pyrimidine-thioindole inhibits gastric cancer cell proliferation via up-regulation of expression of tumor suppressor miR-145

Purpose: To investigate the effect of pyrimidine-thioindole on gastric cancer proliferation and the underlying mechanism of action. Methods: Cell viability and apoptosis were determined using MTT assay and Annexin V/PI assay, respectively. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) was used for the determination of expression levels of miR-145, while protein expression levels were assayed by western blotting. Results: Pyrimidine-thioindole treatment significantly inhibited the proliferation of AGS and SNU-5 cells (p < 0.05), but had no effect on the viability of GES-1 cells. Exposure to pyrimidine-thioindole at doses of 8 and 10 µM significantly enhanced the apoptosis of AGS and SNU-5 cells (p < 0.05). Pyrimidinethioindole exposure markedly increased the proportions of AGS and SNU-5 cells in G1 phase (p < 0.05). In AGS and SNU-5 cell lines, pyrimidine-thioindole exposure at doses of 8 and 10 µM significantly upregulated the expression of miR-145, with higher enhancement of miR-145 expression in AGS cells than in SNU-5 cells. Moreover, pyrimidine-thioindole downregulated the expressions of MMP-2, MMP-9, c-Myc, p-PI3K and p-AKT in AGS and SNU-5 cells. Pyrimidine-thioindole treatment enhanced the expression of p21 in AGS and SNU-5 cells, relative to untreated cells (p < 0.05). Conclusion: These results suggest that pyrimidine-thioindole activates apoptotic signaling pathway, leading to reduction in cell proliferation and arrest of cell cycle. Moreover, it de-activates PI3K/AKT pathway and promotes miR-145 expression in AGS and SNU-5 cells. Thus, pyrimidine-thioindole has therapeutic significance for the management of gastric cancer

Uniqueness of isometric immersions with the same mean curvature

Motivated by the quasi-local mass problem in general relativity, we study the rigidity of isometric immersions with the same mean curvature into a warped product space. As a corollary of our main result, two star-shaped hypersurfaces in a spatial Schwarzschild or AdS-Schwarzschild manifold with nonzero mass differ only by a rotation if they are isometric and have the same mean curvature. We also give similar results if the mean curvature condition is replaced by an $\sigma_2$-curvature condition.Comment: 23 pages, introduction revised, references update

Efficient quantum compression for identically prepared states with arbitrary dimentional

In this paper, we present an efficient quantum compression method for identically prepared states with arbitrary dimentional