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. 1997 Jan;23(1-3):127–132. doi: 10.1023/A:1007951231617

Assay systems for screening food components that have anti-proliferative and anti-invasive activity to rat ascites hepatoma cells: In vitro and ex vivo effects of green tea extract

Yutaka Miura 1, Hiroshi Shiomi 1, Fumihiko Sakai 1, Kazumi Yagasaki 1,✉
PMCID: PMC3449865  PMID: 22358528

Abstract

We have developed in vitro and ex vivo assay systems for screening food components and natural substances that suppress the proliferation and/or invasion of a rat ascites hepatoma cell line of AH109A and have used them to study the effect of green tea extract. AH109A cells were found to penetrate underneath the monolayer of primary cultured mesothelial cells isolated from Donryu rat mesentery in the presence of 10% newborn bovine serum. Green tea extract inhibited this AH109A penetration in a dose dependent manner and also inhibited AH109A proliferation in vitro dose-dependently. Green tea tannin, the major polyphenolic substances in green tea extract, also inhibited the proliferation and invasion of AH109A in vitro in a dose dependent manner. When rat serum obtained 0.5 h after oral intubation of green tea extract was added to the culture media instead of newborn bovine serum at a concentration of 10%, the invasion of AH109A was significantly inhibited as compared to control rat serum (before green tea extract intubation); the inhibitory effect lasted for 1 h and disappeared 3 h after oral intubation of green tea extract, but those rat sera showed no inhibition of AH109A proliferation. These results suggest that green tea extract has an inhibitory effect on the invasion of AH109A both in vitro and ex vivo, but on the proliferation of AH109A only in vitro, and that these assay systems are effective for the screening of food components which inhibit tumor cell proliferation and invasion.

Keywords: green tea extract, hepatoma cells, invasion, proliferation

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