• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제51권4호
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• pp.393-397
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• 2019

Persimmon leaf extract (PSE) 는 HepG2 인간 간암 세포에서 proteasome의 활성과 $NF-{\kappa}B$ 활성화를 억제하였고 cell cycle에서 G2/M기와 sub-G1기의 cell population을 유의하게 증가시켰다. 이러한 결과는 PSE의 식물생리활성물질을 proteasome 활성 억제제로 개발할 수 있는 가능성을 제시한다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제16권8호
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• pp.3383-3387
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• 2015

Portulaca oleracea (Family: Portulacaceae), is well known for its anti-inflammatory, antioxidative, anti-bacterial, and anti-tumor activities. However, cytotoxic effects of seed oil of Portulaca oleracea against human liver cancer (HepG2) and human lung cancer (A-549) cell lines have not been studied previously. Therefore, the present study was designed to investigate the cytotoxic effects of Portulaca oleracea seed oil on HepG2 and A-549 cell lines. Both cell lines were exposed to various concentrations of Portulaca oleracea seed oil for 24h. After the exposure, percentage cell viability was studied by (3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide) (MTT), neutral red uptake (NRU) assays, and cellular morphology by phase contrast inverted microscopy. The results showed a concentration-dependent significant reduction in the percentage cell viability and an alteration in the cellular morphology of HepG2 and A-549 cells. The percentage cell viability was recorded as 73%, 63%, and 54% by MTT assay and 76%, 61%, and 50% by NRU assay at 250, 500, and $1000{\mu}g/ml$, respectively in HepG2 cells. Percentage cell viability was recorded as 82%, 72%, and 64% by MTT assay and 83%, 68%, and 56% by NRU assay at 250, 500, and $1000{\mu}g/ml$, respectively in A-549 cells. The 100 $100{\mu}g/ml$ and lower concentrations were found to be non cytotoxic to A-549 cells, whereas decrease of 14% and 12% were recorded by MTT and NRU assay, respectively in HepG2 cells. Both HepG2 and A-549 cell lines exposed to 250, 500, and $1000{\mu}g/ml$ of Portulaca oleracea seed oil lost their normal morphology, cell adhesion capacity, become rounded, and appeared smaller in size. The data from this study showed that exposure to seed oil of Portulaca oleracea resulted in significant cytotoxicity and inhibition of growth of the human liver cancer (HepG2) and human lung cancer (A-549) cell lines.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제34권10호
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• pp.1514-1519
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• 2005

본 실험은 홍조해조류의 하나인 김을 메탄올로 추출 후 각 용매별로 다시 분획하여 암세포 성장억제 효과와 QR유도활성 효과 등 생리활성을 연구하였다. 김을 이용하여 4종의 암세포주 C6, HepG2, MCF-7및 HT-29 세포주에 대한 암세포 증식억제 실험을 한 결과 사용한 4종의 암세포주에서 모두 시료첨가 농도에 의존적으로 증식저지 효과가 나타났고, 특히 김의 hexan 분획물에서 가장 높은 암세포 성장 억제효과를 나타내었다. 그리고 본 시료는 신경종양, 간암 및 여성암의 대표적인 유방암세포의 성장억제효과가 탁월하였다. 또한, 사용한 4가지 암세포주중 유일하게 quinone reductase를 가지고 있는 HepG2를 이용한 암 예방지표인 quinone reductase 효소 유도 활성 여부를 측정한 결과 분획물 첨가농도를 50, 100 및 150 g/mL로 첨가하였을 때 PTMH의 첨가농도 50 ${\mu}g/mL$에서 대조군에 비해 약 1.5배 이상의 높은 QR 유도효과를 나타내었고 최종농도 150 ${\mu}g/mL$에서는 약 6.6배의 높은 암 예방 QR 유도효과를 나타내었다.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.381-386
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 암모니아에 의해 손상된 사람의 간세포주 Hep G2 cell과 rat의 hepatocyte에 대하여 metronidazole이 간 세포 손상을 억제하는 효과가 있음을 밝혔다. Metronidazole은 암모니아에 의한 세포 생존율 감소, 배지내의 암모니아 수준 및 지질과산화 증가 및 항산화 효소 발현 감소 그리고 세포 내 DNA 손상과 세포사멸을 억제하였다. 따라서 metronidazole은 암모니아로부터 기인하는 세포손상을 감소시켜 간세포 기능을 보호함으로써 간 기능의 저하로 발생한 과암모니아혈증에 효과적인 치료제로서의 가능성을 시사한다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.504-508
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• 1999

This report compares the selective cytotoxic effects of Doenjang fermented by various Bacillus strains (Bacillus sp. SS9, SSA3, and PM3) on human liver cell lines with that of conventional Doenjang (DTY, DTG, and DTK) and commercial Doenjang (DCM, DCD, and DCS). To investigate selective cytotoxic effects of Doenjang extracts, the cell density of HepG2 (Hepatocellular carcinoma) and CCL-13 (cells derived from human normal liver) was estimated after addition of the extracts by using a viable cell counting method. The maximum selectivity ratio ($IC_{50}$value against CCL-13/$IC_{50}$ value aganist HepG2) was observed by PM3 (extracts of Doenjang fermented with Bacillus sp. PM3). As for morphological changes shown by the addition of PM3 into HepG2 and CCL-13 cultures, HepG2 was significantly disrupted, however, CCL-13 was not affected. Also, the growth rate of HepG2 was decreased significantly by the addition of PM3. Consequently, PM3 showed a more detrimental effect on HepG2 than that on CCL-13.

• 대한한의학회지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.33-40
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• 2004

Objective : This study investigated the apoptotic effect and its mechanism of Radix Aconiti (RA) extract and aconitine, which is a major constituent of RA, in HepG2 human hepatoma cells. Methods : We used MTT and DNA fragmentation assay to investigate cell viability and apoptotic effect on RA extract-treated HepG2 cells. In addition, to clarify the mechanism of RA extract-induced apoptosis, we applied caspase-3 enzyme activity assay and Western blotting method on poly-(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) protein expression. Results : Treatment with RA extract resulted in the decrease of cell viability, and this effect was caused from apoptosis as confirmed by discontinuous fragmentation of DNA in HepG2 cells, but aconitine did not. Also, RA extract-treated HepG2 cells induced the activation of caspase-3 enzyme activity in time- and dose-dependent manners, which was accompanied by the cleavage of 116 kD PARP to 85 kD product. Conclusions : These results suggest that the apoptotic effects of RA extract on HepG2 cells could not be explained by aconitine. Additionally, RA extract induced apoptosis in hepatoma cells through caspase-3 activation and subsequent PARP cleavage.

• 대한한방내과학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.149-165
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• 2006

Objectives: This study was done to evaluate the effects of Saengkankunbi-tang on cell-viability, proliferation, cell-cycle, apoptosis and DNA replication on HepG2 cell and to find out by which molecular-biological mechanism by which Saengkankunbi-tang operates. Methods : The MTT assay, cell counting assay, [3H]-thymidine incorporation assay, flow cytometric analysis, tryphan blue exclusion assay, western blot analysis, quantative RT-PCR were taken. Results : Saengkankunbi-tang had no effect on proliferation, cell-cycle and DNA replications of HepG2 cells, while it improved cell viability and reduced apoptosis, and it activated Akt and NFKB. But, it did not produce an effect on cell viability and apoptosis when P13K/Akt pathway was blocked by LY294002 nor when $NF{\kapa}B$ activation was blocked by DN-$I{\kapa}B$. Conclusion : These results suggests that Saengkankunbi-tang improves cell viability and reduces apoptosis of HepG2 cells, by activating $NF{\kapa}B$ through PI3K/Akt pathway.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.384-389
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• 2014

Adiponectin, an adipokine predominantly secreted from adipose tissue, exhibits diverse biological responses, including metabolism of glucose and lipid, and apoptosis in cancer cells. Recently, adiponectin has been shown to modulate autophagy as well. While emerging evidence has demonstrated that autophagy plays a role in the modulation of proliferation and apoptosis of cancer cells, the role of autophagy in apoptosis of cancer cell caused by adiponectin has not been explored. In the present study, we demonstrated that globular adiponectin (gAcrp) induces both apoptosis and autophagy in human hepatoma cell line (HepG2 cells) and breast cancer cells (MCF-7), as evidenced by increase in caspase-3 activity, Bax, microtubule-associated protein light chain 3-II (LC3 II) protein levels, and autophagosome formation. Interestingly, gene silencing of LC3B, an autophagy marker, significantly enhanced gAcrp-induced apoptosis in both HepG2 and MCF-7 cell lines, whereas induction of autophagy by rapamycin, an mTOR inhibitor, significantly prevented gAcrp-induced apoptosis in hepatoma cells HepG2. Furthermore, modulation of autophagy produced similar effects on gAcrp-induced Bax expression in HepG2 cells. These results implicate that induction of autophagy plays a regulatory role in adiponectin-induced apoptosis of cancer cells, and thus inhibition of autophagy would be a novel promising target to enhance the efficiency of cancer cell apoptosis by adiponectin.

• 동의생리병리학회지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.1251-1256
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• 2003

To determine the effect of Zibachunggan-tang(ZCT) on the process of lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced nuclear factor-kBp65 (NF-kBp65) activation, and LPS-induced expression of pro-inflammatory proteins including tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), in HepG2 cell. Immunoblot analysis showed that the level of nucleic NF-kBp65 was rapidly up-regulated and cytosolic inhibitory I-kBα was down-regulated by LPS challenge. While ZCT inhibited an increase of NF-kBp65 and degradation of I-kBα in HepG2 cell. Beside LPS-induced expression of a group of genes, such as TNF-α, inducible iNOS and COX-2, are repressed by ZCT. It may be concluded that ZCT attenuates the progress of LPS-induced inflammation by reduction of NF-kBp65 activation. The ZCT would be useful as a therapeutic agent for endotoxin-induced liver disease.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제31권8호
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• pp.743-747
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• 2014

In this study, drop-on-demand system using piezo-elecrtric inkjet printers was employed for preparation of collagen microspheres, and its application was made to the HepG2 cell-laden microsphere preparation. The collagen microspheres were injected into beaker filled with mineral oil and incubated in a water bath at $37^{\circ}C$ for 45 minutes to induce gelation of the collagen microsphere. The size of collagen microsphere was $100{\mu}m$ in diameter and $80{\mu}m$ in height showing spherical shape. HepG2 cells were encapsulated in the collagen microsphere. The cell-laden microspheres were inspected by the microscopic images. The encapsulation of cells may be beneficial for applications ranging from tissue engineering to cell-based diagnostic assays.