The present invention discloses a new use of androsterone-4,6,8(9),13(14)-tetraene-3,11,16-trione, namely, its use in preparing a
drug for treating
acute lymphocytic leukemia. The present invention adopts an
acute lymphocytic leukemia cell line (T line, B line) and detects the IC value of androsterone-4,6,8(9),13(14)-tetraene-3,11,16-trione in an ALL
cell line by a CCK-8 method. 50 The present invention studies the
cytotoxicity of androst-4,6,8(9),13(14)-tetraene-3,11,16-trione to human
umbilical vein fusion cells Eahy.926 and rat normal liver cells BRL-3A.
Flow cytometry technology shows that the compound mainly inhibits the growth of
leukemia cells by inducing
apoptosis and blocking the
cell cycle. The present invention not only increases the diversity of the
biological activity of androst-4,6,8(9),13(14)-tetraene-3,11,16-trione, but also provides a new direction for the research and development of new drugs for the treatment of
leukemia.