In this study we investigated effects of natural extract from the black tea Camellia sinensis (BTE) against human colon carcinoma cell line HT-29, human breast carcinoma cell line MCF-7, human alveolar carcinoma cell line A549 and healthy cell line NIH-3T3. We identified concentration range for cytotoxic/antiproliferative effects using MTT assay and the trypan blue assay, gel electrophoresis we...

Epidemiologic investigations indicate a close relationship between colorectal cancer and fat intake. However, to date the effects of lipid peroxidation-derived products that are formed from fat (especially free or esterified unsaturated fatty acids) on the initiation or progression of colorectal cancer have not been investigated extensively. Therefore, in the present study, we examined the effe...

Recently developed HT-29-derived cell lines, which display variable differentiated phenotypes provide an invaluable opportunity to analyze the mechanism by which cell differentiation is regulated in the intestine. We have studied the effects of the tumor promoter 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) in the differentiation phenotype of mucus-secreting (HT-29 M6) and absorptive (HT-29 M3) c...

Reduction of 2,5-diaziridinyl-3,6-bis(carboethoxyamino)-l,4-benzoquinone (diaziquone; AZQ) by purified rat hepatic DT-diaphorase »as NADH and enzyme dependent and was inhibited by prior boiling of the enzyme or by dicumarol. Under aerobic conditions some of the hydroquinone (AZQH2) formed by reduction oxidized to regenerate AZQ and an approximate 1:1 stoichiometry was observed between V/(.)l I...

Enterovirus 71 (EV71) causes hand-foot-and-mouth disease, which can lead to fatal neurological complications in young children and infants. Few gastrointestinal symptoms are observed clinically, suggesting the presence of a unique immunity to EV71 in the gut. We reported a robust induction of interferons (IFNs) in human intestinal epithelial cells (HT-29), which was suppressed in other types su...

(OFI) contains health-promoting compounds like flavonoids, being the isorhamnetin glycosides the most abundant. We evaluated the effect of OFI extracts with different isorhamnetin glycosides against two different human colon cancer cells (HT-29 and Caco2). The extracts were obtained by alkaline hydrolysis with NaOH at 40 °C during 15, 30 or 60 min. Tri and diglycosides were the most abundant is...

In addition to their role as regulators of leukocyte migration and activation, chemokines and their receptors also function in angiogenesis, growth regulation, and HIV-1 pathogenesis--effects that involve the action of chemokines on nonhematopoietic cells. To determine whether chemokine receptors are expressed in human colonic epithelium, HT-29 cells were examined by RT-PCR for the expression o...