Abstract:
Objective To explore the influence of triple anti-tumor therapy which bases on sirolimus combined huaier granule and thymosin α-1 on T lymphocyte of rat model with liver cancer recurrence after transplantation.
Methods Seventy-two Sprague-Dawley(SD)rats were randomly divided into triple therapy group, sirolimus group, huaier-granule group, thymosin α-1 group, positive-control group and blank group(n=12 in each group). Except the blank group, rats in all the other groups were established the simulation animal model of liver cancer recurrence after liver transplantation by chemical-induced method. After the model was established, rats in the positive control group were executed to appraise whether the model was successful. The proportion of regulatory T cells (Treg) of CD4+ T lymphocytes in peripheral blood (Treg%), the percentage of CD4+ T lymphocyte of total lymphocyte(CD4+T%)and the percentage of CD8+ T lymphocyte of total lymphocyte (CD8+T%), were detected by the flow cytometry respectively. The relationship between Treg% and CD4+ T%, CD8+ T%, the ratio of CD4+/CD8+ T lymphocytes(CD4+/CD8+)was analyzed by the method of Spearman rank correlation.
Results Pathological section of rat liver tissue suggested that the rat model was established successfully. Treg% of positive control group was higher than that of blank group, the difference had statistical significance(P<0.05). Treg% of triple therapy group was significantly lower than that of the positive control group, huaier-granule group, thymosin α-1 group, and significantly higher than the blank group(all in P<0.05). Compared with positive-control group, CD4+T% and CD8+T% of triple therapy group, sirolimus group and thymosin α-1 group were significantly higher (all in P<0.05). CD4+T% and CD8+T% of triple therapy group were significantly higher than those of thymosin α-1 group, sirolimus group and huaier-granule group (all in P<0.05). The relationship between Treg% and CD4+T%, CD8+T%, CD4+/CD8+ in peripheral blood were negatively correlated for rats in each group. In addition, the triple anti-tumor therapy decreased the negative correlation between Treg% and CD4+/CD8+.
Conclusions Sirolimus based triple anti-tumor therapy can decrease the peripheral blood Treg level of the liver cancer rat, increase the number of T lymphocyte and CD4+/CD8+, and play the role of anti tumor cell growth and proliferation.