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CARCINOGENESIS
Volume 21, Issue 5, Pages 921-927Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/21.5.921
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- NCI NIH HHS [5R01CA67944, 1R29CA74162-01] Funding Source: Medline
- PHS HHS [525435] Funding Source: Medline
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Epidemiological studies consistently indicate that consumption of fruits and vegetables lowers cancer risk in humans and suggest that certain dietary constituents may be effective in preventing colon cancer. Plant-derived phenolic compounds manifest many beneficial effects and can potentially inhibit several stages of carcinogenesis in vivo. In this study, we investigated the efficacy of several plant-derived phenolics, including caffeic acid phenethyl ester (CAPE), curcumin, quercetin and rutin, for the prevention of tumors in C57BL/6J-Min/+ (Min/+) mice. These animals bear a germline mutation in the Apc gene and spontaneously develop numerous intestinal adenomas by 15 weeks of age. At a dietary level of 0.15%, CAFE decreased tumor formation in Min/+ mice by 63%. Curcumin induced a similar tumor inhibition. Quercetin and rutin, however, both failed to alter tumor formation at dietary levels of 2%. Examination of intestinal tissue from the treated animals showed that tumor prevention by CAFE and curcumin was associated with increased enterocyte apoptosis and proliferation. CAFE and curcumin also decreased expression of the oncoprotein beta-catenin in the enterocytes of the Min/+ mouse, an observation previously associated with an antitumor effect, These data place the plant phenolics CAFE and curcumin among a growing list of anti-inflammatory agents that suppress Ape-associated intestinal carcinogenesis.
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