ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Year : 2022 | Volume
: 17 | Issue : 4 | Page : 372--382
Pomegranate seed extract enhances the inhibitory effect of adipose- derived mesenchymal stem cells on breast cancer cell line in co-culture conditions
Nahid Moradi-Gharibvand1, Mohsen Setayeshmehr2, Mohammad Kazemi3, Azadeh Safaee1, Laya Sadat Khorsandi4, Darioush Bijan Nejad5, Seyed Javad Hasheminia6, Batool Hashemibeni1
1 Department of Anatomical Sciences and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, I.R. Iran
2 Department of Biomaterials, Nanotechnology, and Tissue Engineering, Faculty of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, I.R. Iran
3 Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, I.R. Iran
4 Cellular and Molecular Research Center, Medical Basic Sciences Research Institute, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, I.R. Iran
5 Department of Anatomical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, I.R. Iran
6 Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, I.R. Iran
Correspondence Address:
Batool Hashemibeni
Department of Anatomical Sciences and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan
I.R. Iran
Background and purpose: Pomegranate seed extract (PSE) possesses anticancer activities and healing effects. Adipose-derived stem cells (ADSCs) are being considered a new candidate for cancer treatment. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of PSE on the cell cycle and apoptosis of the MCF-7 cell line in the co-culture condition with ADSCs.
Experimental approach: MCF-7 and ADSC cells (ratio 1/1) were cultured in a transwell plate with and without PSE (PSE-co-culture and co-culture groups). MCF-7 cells were cultured in monolayer without and with PSE (mono-culture and PSE-mono-culture groups). MCF-7 cell line was harvested on day 5 and cell viability, apoptotic activity, cell cycle, and gene expression were evaluated.
Findings / Results: The results of the MTT assay indicated that PSE at 100 μg/mL has the highest cytotoxicity on the MCF-7 in the PSE-co-culture group. The cell cycle analysis revealed that ADSCs in combination with PSE significantly increased the population of MCF-7 cells in the G1 phase, resulting in the arrest of MCF-7 cells cycle in the G0/G1 transition. In addition, the most apoptotic MCF-7 cells (41.5%) were detected in the same group. Expression of BAX and caspase3 genes were upregulated while anti-apoptotic (BCL-2) and angiogenesis inducer (VEGF) genes were downregulated in the PSE-co-culture group compared with the other groups.
Conclusion and implications: ADSCs reduced cell viability and proliferation of MCF-7 cells in co-culture conditions and adding PSE to the medium increased the apoptosis of cancer cells. This study suggests that ADSCs with PSE can suppress tumor cells.
How to cite this article:
Moradi-Gharibvand N, Setayeshmehr M, Kazemi M, Safaee A, Khorsandi LS, Nejad DB, Hasheminia SJ, Hashemibeni B. Pomegranate seed extract enhances the inhibitory effect of adipose- derived mesenchymal stem cells on breast cancer cell line in co-culture conditions.Res Pharma Sci 2022;17:372-382
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Moradi-Gharibvand N, Setayeshmehr M, Kazemi M, Safaee A, Khorsandi LS, Nejad DB, Hasheminia SJ, Hashemibeni B. Pomegranate seed extract enhances the inhibitory effect of adipose- derived mesenchymal stem cells on breast cancer cell line in co-culture conditions. Res Pharma Sci [serial online] 2022 [cited 2022 Aug 12 ];17:372-382
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