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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
12
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-11-27
pubmed:abstractText
Rigorous and systematic pre-clinical studies are necessary and essential to establish the efficacy and safety of Oriental herbs and formulas in order to transform traditional herbal practices into evidence-based medicine. Here we evaluated the anti-cancer activities of the ethanol extract of Ka-mi-kae-kyuk-tang (KMKKT), a formula of ten Oriental herbs, with a battery of in vitro and in vivo mechanism-based biomarkers involving angiogenesis, apoptosis and metastasis. The results show that KMKKT suppressed the vascular endothelial responses by inhibiting basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF)-induced ERK1/2 phosphorylation, cell migration as well as tube formation in the human umbilical vein endothelial cell model, and decreased the hypoxia-induced HIF1alpha and vascular epithelial growth factor (VEGF) expression in the mouse Lewis lung carcinoma (LLC) cells in vitro, and inhibited the bFGF-induced angiogenesis in chick chorioallantoic membrane model, and in the Matrigel plugs in mice. Intraperitoneal delivery of KMKKT potently inhibited the growth of the subcutaneously inoculated LLC cells in syngenic mice. In addition, KMKKT inhibited the invasion ability of the mouse colon 26-L5 cancer cells in vitro and decreased their formation of liver metastasis when intraportally inoculated in syngenic mice. Furthermore, KMKKT suppressed the growth of the human PC-3 prostate cancer xenografts in athymic nude mice and averted the cancer-related body weight loss. The in vivo cancer growth suppression was associated with a decreased microvessel density and VEGF abundance as well as an increased PARP cleavage and the TUNEL-positive apoptosis. Together, our data support broad-spectra in vivo anti-cancer activities of KMKKT targeting angiogenesis, apoptosis and metastasis without any adverse effect on the body weight. This formula merits serious consideration for further evaluation for the chemoprevention and treatment of cancers of multiple organ sites.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0143-3334
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
27
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2455-63
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:16777983-Allantois, pubmed-meshheading:16777983-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:16777983-Apoptosis, pubmed-meshheading:16777983-Cell Division, pubmed-meshheading:16777983-Cell Movement, pubmed-meshheading:16777983-Cell Survival, pubmed-meshheading:16777983-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:16777983-Chick Embryo, pubmed-meshheading:16777983-Chorion, pubmed-meshheading:16777983-Colonic Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:16777983-Disease Models, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:16777983-Endothelium, Vascular, pubmed-meshheading:16777983-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:16777983-Korea, pubmed-meshheading:16777983-Liver Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:16777983-Medicine, East Asian Traditional, pubmed-meshheading:16777983-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:16777983-Mice, Inbred BALB C, pubmed-meshheading:16777983-Neoplasm Metastasis, pubmed-meshheading:16777983-Neovascularization, Pathologic, pubmed-meshheading:16777983-Plant Extracts, pubmed-meshheading:16777983-Umbilical Veins
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
An oriental herbal cocktail, ka-mi-kae-kyuk-tang, exerts anti-cancer activities by targeting angiogenesis, apoptosis and metastasis.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratory of Angiogenesis and Chemoprevention, College of Oriental Medicine, Kyunghee University, 1 Hoegi-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 131-701, Republic of Korea.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural