• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제50권3호
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• pp.228-232
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• 2007

본 연구는 만형자(Vitex rotundifolia)의 세포독성을 확인하기 위한 목적으로 methanol, ethanol, acetone으로 추출한 뒤, 인간 유래의 대장암 세포주인 HT-29에 처리하여 MTT reduction assay를 이용하여 실험을 하였다. 그 결과, 모든 만형자 추출물에서 농도 의존적으로 성장 저해 효과가 나타났으며, 그 중에서도 acetone 추출물을 50 ${\mu}g/ml$ 농도로 처리 시 18%로 가장 높은 항암 효과를 보였다. 또한 각 용매별 추출물을 50 ${\mu}g/ml$를 처리하여 HT-29 세포주의 성장을 관찰한 결과, acetone 추출물은 대조구에 비하여 암세포의 수축 등 형태변화가 두드러지게 나타났으며, Hoechst 33342 staining을 통하여 apoptotic body가 형성된 것을 확인 하였다. 그리고 가장 활성이 좋은 acetone 추출물을 용매 분획하여 얻은 분획물 중, n-hexane 분획물에서 농도 의존적으로 세포독성을 나타냄을 알 수 있었다. 또한 만형자의 n-hexane 분획물은 다른 대장암 세포주 SW620에 대해서도 50 ${\mu}g/ml$ 농도에서 대조군에 비하여 7배 정도의 높은 세포독성을 나타내고 있음을 MTT reduction assay와 LDH release assay를 통하여 확인 할 수 있었다.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제49권3호
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• pp.248-253
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• 2006

조각인(Gleditsiae Semen)은 동아시아 지역에서 장 기능을 향상시키는 등의 여러 가지 민간요법으로 사용되는 한약재이다. 본 연구에서는 조각인의 항암활성을 검색하기 위한 목적으로 methanol, ethanol, acetone으로 추출한 뒤, 인간 유래의 대장암 세포주 HT-29에 처리하여 각 추출물의 암세포 성장 억제능을 확인하기 위하여 MTT-dye reduction assay를 이용하여 실험하였다. 그 결과, methanol 추출물에서 가장 높은 세포독성을 확인할 수 있었고, ethanol 추출물에서도 비교적 높은 암세포 성장 억제능을 볼 수 있었으나, acetone 추출물에서는 거의 세포독성이 나타나지 않았다. 그리고 추출물들을 $25\;{\mu}g/ml$의 농도로 암세포에 처리하여 위상차 현미경으로 세포주의 형태학적 변화를 관찰한 결과에서도 methanol 추출물에서의 활성이 가장 강력하게 나타남을 알 수 있었다. 조각인의 항암활성물질들의 용매특성을 알아보기 위하여 methanol 추출물을 극성도에 따라 용매분획 하여 분리한 각 분획물의 세포독성을 확인한 결과, water층 분획물에서 농도 의존적으로 세포독성을 나타냄을 확인하였다. 또한 조각인의 water층 분획물은 또 다른 대장암 세포주인 SW620에 대해서도 대조군에 비해 $25\;{\mu}g/ml$의 농도에서 2배 정도 높은 항암활성을 나타내고 있음을 MTT reduction assay와 LDH release assay를 통하여 확인 할 수 있었다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.2911-2916
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• 2014

Oxaliplatin is a first-line therapy for colorectal cancer, but cancer cell resistance to the drug compromises its efficacy. To explore mechanisms of drug resistance, we treated colorectal cancer cells (HCT116 and SW620) long-term with oxaliplatin and established stable oxaliplatin-resistant lines (HCT116-OX and SW620-OX). Compared with parental cell lines, $IC_{50}$s for various chemotherapeutic agents (oxaliplatin, cisplatin and doxorubicin) were increased in oxaliplatin-resistant cell lines and this was accompanied by activation of nuclear factor erythroid-2 p45-related factor 2 (Nrf2) and NADPH quinone oxidoreductase 1 (NQO1). Furthermore, luteolin inhibited the Nrf2 pathway in oxaliplatin-resistant cell lines in a dose-dependent manner. Luteolin also inhibited Nrf2 target gene [NQO1, heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) and $GST{\alpha}1/2$] expression and decreased reduced glutathione in wild type mouse small intestinal cells. There was no apparent effect in Nrf2-/- mice. Luteolin combined with other chemotherapeutics had greater anti-cancer activity in resistant cell lines (combined index values below 1), indicating a synergistic effect. Therefore, adaptive activation of Nrf2 may contribute to the development of acquired drug-resistance and luteolin could restore sensitivity of oxaliplatin-resistant cell lines to chemotherapeutic drugs. Inhibition of the Nrf2 pathway may be the mechanism for this restored therapeutic response.

• Natural Product Sciences
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2009

This study was performed to investigate the cell growth inhibitory effect of tissue cultured root of wild Panax ginseng C.A. Mayer (tcwPG). The human stomach carcinoma cell line, MKN 74, was incubated with 70% EtOH extract of tcwPG or Panax ginseng C.A. Mayer (PG) for 24 hrs. tcwPG inhibited cell growth at a concentration of $250{\mu}g/ml$. However, Panax ginseng extract did not inhibit cell growth at the same concentration. We also tested the ethyl acetate and $H_2O$ fractions of tcwPG. The inhibitory effect of the ethyl acetate fraction on cell proliferation in MKN 74 cells was more potent than that of the crude extract, and the inhibitory effect of the $H_2O$ fraction was less than that of the ethyl acetate fraction. When we separated tcwPG into polar and non-polar saponin fractions and then measured cell growth inhibition, the non-polar saponin in tcwPG exhibited cytotoxicity. To compare the effects of tcwPG on various cancer cell lines, we measured cytotoxicity in MKN 74 (stomach cancer cell line), SW 620 (colon cancer cell line) and PC 3 (prostate cancer cell line). All three cell lines showed cell growth inhibition, and the cell growth inhibitory effects were not quite different in the various cell lines. The non-polar saponins of tcwPG arrested PC 3 cells at G1-phase as did Panax ginseng.

• 약학회지
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• 제54권3호
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• pp.192-199
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• 2010

Colorectal cancer is one of the most common alimentary malignancies. In this study, the antitumor activity of activated human natural killer (NK) cells against human colorectal cancer was evaluated in vivo. Human NK cells are the key contributors of innate immune response and the effective functions of these cells are enhanced by cytokines. Human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) were cultured with interleukin-2 (IL-2)-containing medium for 14 days and resulted in enriched NK cell population. The resulting populations of the cells comprised 7% $CD3^+CD4^+$ cells, 25% $CD3^+CD8^+$ cells, 13% $CD3^-CD8^+$ cells, 4% $CD3^+$CD16/$CD56^+$ cells, 39% $CD3^+$CD16/$CD56^-$ cells, and 52% $CD3^-$CD16/$CD56^+$ cells. Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-$\alpha$), interferon gamma (IFN-$\gamma$), IL-2, IL-4, and IL-5 transcripts of the activated NK cells were confirmed by RT-PCR. In addition, activated NK cells at doses of 2.5, 5 and 10 million cells per mouse inhibited 10%, 34% and 47% of SW620-induced tumor growth in nude mouse xenograft assays, respectively. This study suggests that NK cell-based immunotherapy may be used as an adoptive immunotherapy for colorectal cancer patients.

• 약학회지
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• 제54권5호
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• pp.354-361
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• 2010

Glycosphingolipids are structural components of mammalian cell membranes and are involved in essential cellular physiology such as cell-cell interaction, recognition, transmembrane signaling, proliferation and cell death. In this study, the simple quantitative method of monoglycoceramides-containing glucosylceramide and galactosylceramide was developed. The glycosylceramides extracted from culture cells and rat plasma were resolved by TLC, deacylated by SCDase and analyzed by HPLC-fluorescence detector at an excitation wavelength of 340 nm and an emission wavelength of 455 nm. Limit of detection was approximately 0.1 pmol and limit of quantification was about 1 pmol for both monoglycoceramide standards. The recoveries of standard glucosylceramides from intra- and inter-day assays were 113.8 and 88.8% and those of galactosylceramides were 110.7 and 123.9%, respectively. The monoglycoceramide contents of SW-620 cells and rat plasma were $141.5{\pm}5$ pmol/$1{\times}10^6$ cells and $3.9{\pm}0.3{\mu}M$, respectively. The present analytical method provides a reproducible quantification and total content of monoglycoceramide which may be as a potential biomarker for lipid imbalance-related human diseases.

• Natural Product Sciences
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.214-216
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• 2006

Isorhamnetin from the aerial parts of Persicaria thunbergii has been reported to have anti-tumor activity mediated by the inhibition of farnesyl protein transferase. In this study, we investigated the anti-proliferation effects of isorhamnetin on NIH3T3, K-RAS, H-RAS and SW620 cells, and it showed anti-proliferative effects in a dose-dependent manner with $IC_{50}$ value 4.1, 7.9, 20.2, and $22.4{\mu}g/ml$, repectively.

• 한국독성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국독성학회 2005년도 춘계 국제심포지엄 및 학술대회
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• pp.172-172
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• 2005

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.478-484
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• 2004

The novel 1-(1-benzoylindoline-5-sulfonyl)-4-phenyl-4,5-dihydroimidazolones 2 shows highly potent and broad cytotoxicities. Their cytotoxicities against human lung carcinoma A549, human chronic myelogenous leukemia K562, and human ovarian adenocarcinoma SK-OV-3 are compatible with doxorubicin. Compound 2p (1-[(4-aminobenzoyl)indoline-5-sulfonyl])-4-phenyl-4,5-dihydroimidazolone) exhibits a cytotoxicity that is far more potent than doxorubicin and also exhibits highly effective antitumour activities against murine (3LL, Colon 26) and human xenograft (NCI-H23, SW620) tumor models.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.659-663
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• 2006

해조류로부터 항암활성을 가지는 생리활성물질을 탐색하기 위하여 홍조해조류의 하나인 참곱슬이를 용매별 추출한 후, 분획하여 암세포 성장 억제효과를 연구하였다. 참곱슬이를 이용하여 대장암 세포주 HT-29에 대해 methanol, ethanol 및 acetone 추출물을 처리했을 때 모두 농도에 의존적으로 성장저해 효과가 나타났고, 그 중에서도 methanol 추출물에서는 50 mg/ml 농도 처리 시 12% 이하의 생존률을 보이는 가장 강한 암세포 성장 억제효과를 보였다. 또한 HT-29 암세포 성장에 대한 현미경 관찰 결과 methanol 추출물은 대조구에 비하여 암세포 성장 억제 정도와 세포의 수축등 형태변화가 두드러지게 나타났다. 그리고 가장 활성이 좋은 methanol 추출물을 용매 분획하여 얻은 분획물 중 n-hexane과 diethyl ether 분획물에서 암세포 성장 억제효과를 보였으며, n-hexane 분획물이 HT-29 세포주에 대하여 가장 높은 항암활성을 나타내었다. 따라서 n-hexane 분획물에 대한 여러 인체 암세포주에 대해 항암활성을 확인하기 위하여 HT-29와 같은 대장암 유래의 세포주 SW620, 자궁경부암 세포 HeLa 및 유방암세포 MCF-7에 대한 암세포 성장 억제효과를 확인한 결과, 3종의 암세포주에서 모두 농도 의존적으로 높은 항암활성을 보임에 따라 참곱슬이에 여러 인체 암세포 성장 억제효과를 가지는 생리활성 물질이 함유되어 있음을 알 수 있다.