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Methanolic Extracts from Brown Seaweeds Dictyota cilliolata and Dictyota menstrualis Induce Apoptosis in Human Cervical Adenocarcinoma HeLa Cells
Carcinoma of the uterine cervix is the second most common female tumor worldwide, surpassed only by breast cancer. Natural products from seaweeds evidencing apoptotic activity have attracted a great deal of attention as new leads for alternative and complementary preventive or therapeutic anticancer...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6272606/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25871374 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules20046573 |
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author | Gomes, Dayanne Lopes Telles, Cinthia Beatrice Silva Costa, Mariana Santana Santos Pereira Almeida-Lima, Jailma Costa, Leandro Silva Keesen, Tatjana Souza Lima Rocha, Hugo Alexandre Oliveira |
author_facet | Gomes, Dayanne Lopes Telles, Cinthia Beatrice Silva Costa, Mariana Santana Santos Pereira Almeida-Lima, Jailma Costa, Leandro Silva Keesen, Tatjana Souza Lima Rocha, Hugo Alexandre Oliveira |
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description | Carcinoma of the uterine cervix is the second most common female tumor worldwide, surpassed only by breast cancer. Natural products from seaweeds evidencing apoptotic activity have attracted a great deal of attention as new leads for alternative and complementary preventive or therapeutic anticancer agents. Here, methanol extracts from 13 species of tropical seaweeds (Rhodophytas, Phaeophyta and Chlorophyta) collected from the Northeast of Brazil were assessed as apoptosis-inducing agents on human cervical adenocarcinoma (HeLa). All extracts showed different levels of cytotoxicity against HeLa cells; the most potent were obtained from the brown alga Dictyota cilliolata (MEDC) and Dictyota menstrualis (MEDM). In addition, MEDC and MEDM also inhibits SiHa (cervix carcinoma) cell proliferation. Studies with these two extracts using flow cytometry and fluorescence microscopy showed that HeLa cells exposed to MEDM and MEDC exhibit morphological and biochemical changes that characterize apoptosis as shown by loss of cell viability, chromatin condensation, phosphatidylserine externalization, and sub-G1 cell cycle phase accumulation, also MEDC induces cell cycle arrest in cell cycle phase S. Moreover, the activation of caspases 3 and 9 by these extracts suggests a mitochondria-dependent apoptosis route. However, other routes cannot be ruled out. Together, these results point out the methanol extracts of the brown algae D. mentrualis and D. cilliolata as potential sources of molecules with antitumor activity. |
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spelling | pubmed-62726062018-12-03 Methanolic Extracts from Brown Seaweeds Dictyota cilliolata and Dictyota menstrualis Induce Apoptosis in Human Cervical Adenocarcinoma HeLa Cells Gomes, Dayanne Lopes Telles, Cinthia Beatrice Silva Costa, Mariana Santana Santos Pereira Almeida-Lima, Jailma Costa, Leandro Silva Keesen, Tatjana Souza Lima Rocha, Hugo Alexandre Oliveira Molecules Article Carcinoma of the uterine cervix is the second most common female tumor worldwide, surpassed only by breast cancer. Natural products from seaweeds evidencing apoptotic activity have attracted a great deal of attention as new leads for alternative and complementary preventive or therapeutic anticancer agents. Here, methanol extracts from 13 species of tropical seaweeds (Rhodophytas, Phaeophyta and Chlorophyta) collected from the Northeast of Brazil were assessed as apoptosis-inducing agents on human cervical adenocarcinoma (HeLa). All extracts showed different levels of cytotoxicity against HeLa cells; the most potent were obtained from the brown alga Dictyota cilliolata (MEDC) and Dictyota menstrualis (MEDM). In addition, MEDC and MEDM also inhibits SiHa (cervix carcinoma) cell proliferation. Studies with these two extracts using flow cytometry and fluorescence microscopy showed that HeLa cells exposed to MEDM and MEDC exhibit morphological and biochemical changes that characterize apoptosis as shown by loss of cell viability, chromatin condensation, phosphatidylserine externalization, and sub-G1 cell cycle phase accumulation, also MEDC induces cell cycle arrest in cell cycle phase S. Moreover, the activation of caspases 3 and 9 by these extracts suggests a mitochondria-dependent apoptosis route. However, other routes cannot be ruled out. Together, these results point out the methanol extracts of the brown algae D. mentrualis and D. cilliolata as potential sources of molecules with antitumor activity. MDPI 2015-04-13 /pmc/articles/PMC6272606/ /pubmed/25871374 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules20046573 Text en © 2015 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Gomes, Dayanne Lopes Telles, Cinthia Beatrice Silva Costa, Mariana Santana Santos Pereira Almeida-Lima, Jailma Costa, Leandro Silva Keesen, Tatjana Souza Lima Rocha, Hugo Alexandre Oliveira Methanolic Extracts from Brown Seaweeds Dictyota cilliolata and Dictyota menstrualis Induce Apoptosis in Human Cervical Adenocarcinoma HeLa Cells |
title | Methanolic Extracts from Brown Seaweeds Dictyota cilliolata and Dictyota menstrualis Induce Apoptosis in Human Cervical Adenocarcinoma HeLa Cells |
title_full | Methanolic Extracts from Brown Seaweeds Dictyota cilliolata and Dictyota menstrualis Induce Apoptosis in Human Cervical Adenocarcinoma HeLa Cells |
title_fullStr | Methanolic Extracts from Brown Seaweeds Dictyota cilliolata and Dictyota menstrualis Induce Apoptosis in Human Cervical Adenocarcinoma HeLa Cells |
title_full_unstemmed | Methanolic Extracts from Brown Seaweeds Dictyota cilliolata and Dictyota menstrualis Induce Apoptosis in Human Cervical Adenocarcinoma HeLa Cells |
title_short | Methanolic Extracts from Brown Seaweeds Dictyota cilliolata and Dictyota menstrualis Induce Apoptosis in Human Cervical Adenocarcinoma HeLa Cells |
title_sort | methanolic extracts from brown seaweeds dictyota cilliolata and dictyota menstrualis induce apoptosis in human cervical adenocarcinoma hela cells |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6272606/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25871374 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules20046573 |
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