JOURNAL OF ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY: SCIENCE B, cilt.26, ss.1121-1131, 2025 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
Anastasis is a phenomenon described as a cellular escape from ethanol-induced cell death. Although the relevant mechanism has not yet been fully elucidated, anastasis is thought to play a role in drug resistance in cancer cells. To date, the regulation of anastasis in normal and cancerous cells has not been clarified. The current cancer treatment strategies are expected to selectively attack cancer cells without negatively affect‐ing normal cell proliferation. Inspired by the anti-cancer potential of bee venom, this study is the first to evalu‐ate whether bee venom has similar selectivity in pro‐ducing an anastatic effect. The results indicated that bee venom induces anastasis in normal cells (Michigan Cancer Foundation-10A (MCF10A), Adult Retinal Pig‐ment Epithelium cell line-19 (ARPE-19), and National Institutes of Health 3T3 cell line (NIH3T3)) but causes irreversible cell death in breast cancer cells