2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Suppression of cancer metastases by hop-derived prenylflavonoids and drug discovery research
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15K14411
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Tumor therapeutics
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| Research Institution | Tokyo Women's Medical University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Research Collaborator |
MARU Yoshiro 東京女子医科大学, 医学部, 教授 (00251447)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | プレニル化フラボノイド / 抗腫瘍活性 / アポトーシス / カスパーゼ-3 / 破骨細胞 / 骨破壊 / 肺転移 / 骨転移 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Hop-derived prenylflavonoids, exemplified as xanthohumol (Xh), have various biological activities. However, effectiveness of Xh for systemic cancer metastases and osteolysis accompanied by bone metastasis is not clear. In this study, anti-metastatic and anti-osteolytic potentials of Xh have been investigated. In vitro, Xh promoted apoptosis via caspase-3 activation and inhibited cell growth in metastatic cancer cells. Xh inhibited osteoclast formation induced by the cell-to-cell contact between metastatic cancer cells and host osteoblasts, and attenuated osteolysis induced by co-culture with metastatic cancer cells in the mouse calvarial organ culture system. Furthermore, Xh also attenuated both lung and bone metastases in the mouse systemic cancer metastases model which was made by intravenous injection of the metastatic B16 melanoma cell line in vivo.
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| Free Research Field |
腫瘍生物学
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