Cancer chemopreventive activity of the prenylated coumarin, umbelliprenin, in vivo
Cancer chemopreventive activity of the prenylated coumarin, umbelliprenin, in vivo
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DOI:
10.1097/cej.0b013e32832c389e
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发表时间:
2009-09-01
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
Tokuda, Harukuni
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作者:
Iranshahi, Mehrdad;Sahebkar, Amirhossein;Tokuda, Harukuni
Umbelliprenin is a prenylated compound, which belongs to the class of sesquiterpene coumarins. In continuation of our earlier in-vitro finding, we determined to assess the cancer chemopreventive activity of umbelliprenin in vivo by using a two-stage carcinogenesis assay of mouse skin tumors induced by peroxynitrite as an initiator and TPA (12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate) as a promoter. In this assay, treatment with umbelliprenin along with peroxynitrite/TPA delayed the formation of papillomas up to week 9, and approximately 33.3 and 86.6% of the mice bore papillomas after 11 and 20 weeks of promotion, respectively. Umbelliprenin reduced the number of tumors per mouse by 45% after 20 weeks of promotion compared with the control group. Interestingly, this is equal to the corresponding value (45%) for curcumin, used as a reference standard compound in our study. In addition, the pattern of tumor promotion was slower in mice treated with umbelliprenin compared with the curcumin. Therefore, umbelliprenin might be valuable as a cancer chemopreventive agent. European Journal of Cancer Prevention 18:412-415 (C) 2009 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.