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From: The antiretroviral agent saquinavir enhances hTERT expression and telomerase activity in human T leukaemia cells in vitro

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Effect of saquinavir on cell growth and telomerase activity. A. After 96 h, of culture MTT assay was performed as described in “Materials and Methods”, on Jurkat cells treated with saquinavir 3.75, 7.5 and 15 μM or DMSO as control. Saquinavir concentration which inhibited significantly cell viability (15 μM, p < 0,005), was close to the IC50 (i.e. 17. 36 μM, see “Results” section). The data are represented as percentage cell viability of the untreated cells. Each bar represents the mean ± SD of determinations from 3 independent experiments. Asterisk indicates p < 0.05. B. Representative blot of telomerase activity (TRAP Assay) of whole cell extracts from 500 viable Jurkat cells determined 24, 48 and 72 h following treatment with saquinavir. Graph shows the mean ± SD of OD obtained from pooled results of the effect of saquinavir (15 μM) on telomerase activity of Jurkat cell line from 3 separate experiments. All p values were calculated using Student’s t-test. Asterisk indicates p < 0.05.

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