Research Article
Bioactive Vitamin D Attenuates MED28-Mediated Cell Growth and Epithelial–Mesenchymal Transition in Human Colorectal Cancer Cells
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Calcitriol suppresses Wnt/β-catenin signaling, cell growth, and epithelial-mesenchymal transition, partially through downregulating MED28 expression, in human colorectal cancer cells. (a) SW480 and HT29 cells were treated with calcitriol (100 nM) for 48 h and subjected to RNA extraction and quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction as described in Materials and Methods. Data are expressed as , ; and as compared with the respective control (Control; 0 nM of calcitriol) after normalization with the expression of GAPDH. (b) MED28 upregulates Wnt/β-catenin signaling, cell growth, and epithelial-mesenchymal transition, which can be suppressed by calcitriol.
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