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http://dx.doi.org/10.4014/jmb.1501.01017

Combined Treatment of Herbal Mixture Extract H9 with Trastuzumab Enhances Anti-tumor Growth Effect  

Lee, Sunyi (Department of Life Systems, Sookmyung Women' University)
Han, Sora (Department of Life Systems, Sookmyung Women' University)
Jeong, Ae Lee (Department of Life Systems, Sookmyung Women' University)
Park, Jeong Su (Department of Life Systems, Sookmyung Women' University)
Jung, Seung Hyun (College of Oriental Medicine, Dongguk University)
Choi, Kang-Duk (Graduate School of Bio & Information Technology, Hankyong National University)
Yang, Young (Department of Life Systems, Sookmyung Women' University)
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Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology / v.25, no.7, 2015 , pp. 1036-1046 More about this Journal
Abstract
Extracts from Asian medicinal herbs are known to be successful therapeutic agents against cancer. In this study, the effects of three types of herbal extracts on anti-tumor growth were examined. Among the three types of herbal extracts, H9 showed stronger anti-tumor growth effects than H5 and H11 in vivo. To find the molecular mechanism by which H9 inhibited the proliferation of breast cancer cell lines, the levels of apoptotic markers were examined. Proapoptotic markers, including cleaved PARP and cleaved caspases 3 and 9, were increased, whereas the anti-apoptotic marker Bcl-2 was decreased by H9 treatment. Next, the combined effect of H9 with the chemotherapeutic drugs doxorubicin/cyclophosphamide (AC) on tumor growth was examined using 4T1-tumor-bearing mice. The combined treatment of H9 with AC did not show additive or synergetic anti-tumor growth effects. However, when tumor-bearing mice were co-treated with H9 and the targeted anti-tumor drug trastuzumab, a delay in tumor growth was observed. The combined treatment of H9 and trastuzumab caused an increase of natural killer (NK) cells and a decrease of myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSC). Taken together, H9 induces the apoptotic death of tumor cells while increasing anti-tumor immune activity through the enhancement of NK activity and diminishment of MDSC.
Keywords
Apoptosis; breast cancer; doxorubicin/cyclophosphamide; medicinal herbal extracts; trastuzumab;
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