Med Laser  
Photodynamic Therapy for SNU-80 Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer Cells
Seung Hoon Woo, Kun-Woo Kim, Phil-Sang Chung, Sang Joon Lee
Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Dankook University, College of Medicine, Cheonan, Korea
Correspondence to: Sang Joon Lee
E-mail: lsj72@dankook.ac.kr
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7513-5733
Received: February 21, 2022; Accepted: March 14, 2022; Published online: March 30, 2022.
© Korean Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery. All rights reserved.

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Background and Objectives
Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) is a lethal human neoplasm and has a grave prognosis. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is based on the interaction of a photosensitizer with light at a specific wavelength and induces the destruction of cancer cells. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of PDT with photofrin on SNU-80 anaplastic thyroid cancer cells.
Materials and Methods
After PDT using photofrin, cell viability was measured by the MTT assay. The experiments were done at photofrin concentrations ranging from 1.6 to 3.2 μg/ml. The subcellular localization of photofrin was observed using the ER-TrackerTM and MitoTracker®, Hoechst and propidium iodide (PI) double-stained cells were analyzed to measure the cellular apoptosis and necrosis using a confocal microscope at 4, 8, and 24 hours after laser irradiation. Caspase activation according to the cell death process was measured using the western blot analysis.
Results
Cytotoxicity increased with increasing photofrin concentration in the MTT assay. The photofrin was localized in the cytoplasm and mitochondria inside the SNU-80 cells. The apoptosis and necrosis of cells increased as observed through the confocal microscope, as time after irradiation progressed. The apoptosis and necrosis of the PDT group with a photofrin concentration of 3.2 μg/ml were more than that of the PDT group with a photofrin concentration of 1.6 μg/ml in the Hoechst and PI double staining. The expression of caspase-3, 9, and poly (adp-ribose) polymerases (PARP) was detected by western blot analysis, indicating that photoprin-PDT showed cytotoxicity to anaplastic thyroid cancer cells in a dose-dependent pattern.
Conclusion
Photofrin-PDT led to the in vitro cell death of SNU-80 cells through mitochondria-mediated apoptosis. PDT could thus be used as a part of multimodal treatment for ATC.

This Article


Author ORCID Information

Services
Social Network Service

e-submission

Search for

Archives