201. Inhibitory effects of canthaxanthin on in vitro growth of murine tumor cells.
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Huang DS, Odeleye OE, and Watson RR
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- 9,10-Dimethyl-1,2-benzanthracene, Analysis of Variance, Animals, Canthaxanthin therapeutic use, Cell Line, Transformed, Cells, Cultured, Fibrosarcoma chemically induced, Fibrosarcoma drug therapy, Melanoma, Experimental chemically induced, Melanoma, Experimental drug therapy, Mice, Sarcoma, Experimental chemically induced, Sarcoma, Experimental drug therapy, Tumor Cells, Cultured drug effects, Canthaxanthin pharmacology, Cell Division drug effects, Fibrosarcoma pathology, Melanoma, Experimental pathology, Sarcoma, Experimental pathology
- Abstract
The antitumorigenic effects of carotenoids, in addition to their immuno-enhancing effects, may occur by their direct action on growing tumor cells. To test this hypothesis the direct inhibitory effect of various concentrations of canthaxanthin (CX; 4,4'-diketo-beta-carotene), a non-provitamin A carotenoid, was tested on the in vitro growth of JB/MS, B16F10 melanomas and PYB6 fibrosarcoma and murine non-transformed NIH-3T3 (ATCC CRL 1658) cells. At concentrations of 1 x 10(-8) M up to 1 x 10(-4) M, CX significantly reduced the overall number of tumor cells. The greatest inhibition was observed at a CX concentration of 1 x 10(-4) M after 72 h and 96 h of incubation. However, CX had no inhibitory effect on the growth of the non-transformed NIH-3T3 cell line; rather it significantly enhanced growth of this cell line (P less than 0.05) after 96 h of incubation. Thus, the inhibitory action of CX on growing tumor cells appears to be due to its direct actions on tumor cells and not via its conversion to vitamin A or its immuno-enhancing effects.
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- 1992
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