Cellular Oncology (Jan 2010)

The Pan-Deacetylase Inhibitor Panobinostat Inhibits Growth of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Models by Alternative Pathways of Apoptosis

  • Pietro Di Fazio,
  • Regine Schneider-Stock,
  • Daniel Neureiter,
  • Kinya Okamoto,
  • Till Wissniowski,
  • Susanne Gahr,
  • Karl Quint,
  • Matthias Meissnitzer,
  • Beate Alinger,
  • Roberta Montalbano,
  • Gabriele Sass,
  • Bernd Hohenstein,
  • Eckhart G. Hahn,
  • Matthias Ocker

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3233/CLO-2010-0511
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 32, no. 4
pp. 285 – 300

Abstract

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Inhibition of deacetylases represents a new treatment option for human cancer diseases. We applied the novel and potent pan-deacetylase inhibitor panobinostat (LBH589) to human hepatocellular carcinoma models and investigated by which pathways tumor cell survival is influenced.