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http://dx.doi.org/10.3746/jkfn.2002.31.5.782

Effect of Korean Mistletoe Extract and Lectin on the Preneoplastic Hepatic Lesion and Apoptosis in Experimental Hepatocarcinogenesis  

김미정 (서울여자대학교 자연과학대학 식품영양학전공)
김정희 (서울여자대학교 자연과학대학 식품영양학전공)
이미숙 (서울대학교 의과대학 병리학교실)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition / v.31, no.5, 2002 , pp. 782-787 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was done to investigate the effects of Korean mistletoe water extract and lectin on the apoptosis and preneoplastic lesion in chemically induced rat hepatocarcinogenesis. To attain the above objectives, weanling Sprague-Dawley male rats were fed modified AIN-76 diets containing 10% corn oil for 9 weeks. One week after feeding starts, rats were intraperitoneally injected twice with a dose of diethylnitrosamine (DEN, 50 mg/kg body weight (BW). Rats were provided with 0.05% phenobarbital (PB) in drinking water from one week after DEN treatment until the end of experiment. During the period of PB treatment, rats were injected with mistletoe extract (100 $\mu\textrm{g}$/kg BW) and lectin (10 $\mu\textrm{g}$/kg BW) twice a week. At the end of 9th week, rats were sacrificed and the formation of hepatic glutathione S-transferase placental form positive (GST-P$^{+}$) foci, apoptosis, DNA fragmentation and apoptosis related proteins were determined respectively. The formation of GST-P$^{+}$foci was significantly decreased by mistletoe extract or lectin treatment. Although there was no effect on apoptosis and DNA fragmentation in hepatic tissue by mistletoe extract or lectin treatment, caspase-9 and fas-L were increased. These results suggest that Korean mistletoe extract and lectin have a potential to inhibit hepatocarcinogenesis by increasing apoptosis.sis.
Keywords
mistletoe; lectin; carciogenesis; apoptosis; western blotting;
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