Potential Anti-Inflammatory Effects of the Hydrophilic Fraction of Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) Seed Oil on Breast Cancer Cell Lines

Molecules

Susan Costantini¹  Fabiola Rusolo¹  Valentina De Vito²  Stefania Moccia²  Gianluca Picariello²  Francesca Capone¹  Eliana Guerriero¹  Giuseppe Castello¹ 

[1] Istituto Nazionale per lo studio e la cura dei tumori “Fondazione Giovanni Pascale”-IRCCS–80131 Napoli, Italy;Istituto di Scienze dell’ Alimentazione-CNR, Via Roma 64, 83100 Avellino, Italy

关键词: anti-inflammatory effects;    bioactive molecules;    cell viability;    cytokines;    pomegranate (Punica granatum L.);   

DOI  :  10.3390/molecules19068644

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

In this work, we characterized conjugated linolenic acids (e.g., punicic acid) as the major components of the hydrophilic fraction (80% aqueous methanol extract) from pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) seed oil (PSO) and evaluated their anti-inflammatory potential on some human colon (HT29 and HCT116), liver (HepG2 and Huh7), breast (MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231) and prostate (DU145) cancer lines. Our results demonstrated that punicic acid and its congeners induce a significant decrease of cell viability for two breast cell lines with a related increase of the cell cycle G₀/G₁ phase respect to untreated cells. Moreover, the evaluation of a great panel of cytokines expressed by MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231 cells showed that the levels of VEGF and nine pro-inflammatory cytokines (IL-2, IL-6, IL-12, IL-17, IP-10, MIP-1α, MIP-1β, MCP-1 and TNF-α) decreased in a dose dependent way with increasing amounts of the hydrophilic extracts of PSO, supporting the evidence of an anti-inflammatory effect. Taken together, the data herein suggest a potential synergistic cytotoxic, anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant role of the polar compounds from PSO.

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