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ArticleResearch in pharmaceutical sciences2022

Antiproliferative activity of CD44 siRNA-PEI-PEG nanoparticles in glioblastoma: involvement of AKT signaling.

Parvaneh Mahinfar, Ahad Mokhtarzadeh, Behzad Baradaran, Elham Siasi Torbati

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Article in Research in pharmaceutical sciences, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Schisandrin B targets CD44 to inhibit glioblastoma multiforme.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2026
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Parvaneh MahinfarDepartment of Genetics, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, I.R. Iran.
Ahad MokhtarzadehImmunology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, I.R. Iran.
Behzad BaradaranImmunology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, I.R. Iran.
Elham Siasi TorbatiDepartment of Microbiology, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, I.R. Iran.
Islamic Azad University North Tehran Branch · IRTabriz University of Medical Sciences · IR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

background and purposeGlioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most invasive type of cancer which starts inside the brain. GBM cells were found to have similar properties to glioblastoma cancer stem cells. CD44 can be used as a marker of the cancer stem cells in a subset of glioblastoma tumor cells. Recent studies showed that CD44 is involved in developing cancer cells via the protein kinase B (PKB or AKT) signaling pathway. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the CD44 mRNA silencing effects on the glioblastoma cell cycle via AKT signaling pathway. EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH: To determine CD44 expression in the samples of the patients with GBM, we used the analysis of data extracted from TCGA database. qRT-PCR and western blotting were used to evaluate the expression level of genes and proteins. Different cell cycles were evaluated by DAPI staining and flow cytometry. FINDINGS/

resultsBioinformatics results showed that CD44 expression level in GBM tumor samples is higher than in normal samples. Effects of poly (ethylene imine)-polyethylene glycol (PEI-PEG)-loaded CD44 siRNA in cell cycle showed that CD44 silencing could inhibit cell cycle in G0-G1 phase by more than 20% compared to the negative control ( CONCLUSION AND IMPLICATIONS: Our results suggest that PEI-PEG-loaded CD44 siRNA may attenuate the cell cycle by suppressing AKT signaling pathway.

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AKTCD44Cell cycleGlioblastoma

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PMID34909046
PMCPMC8621842
OpenAlexW3211642216

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