title: Effects of quercetin, a plant flavonol, on the two-stage transformation in vitro.
abstract: Quercetin was examined for the effects on the two-stage chemical transformation of BALB/3T3 cells. Quercetin showed initiating action to induce transformation in the cells which were treated with quercetin and subsequently with 0.49 microM 12-O-tetradecanoyl-phorbol-13-acetate (TPA). Both the proportion of dishes with transformed foci and the average number of foci per dish increased with the concentration of quercetin (15-45 microM). However, initiating treatment with quercetin did not induce transformation without subsequent TPA treatment. Quercetin inhibited the promotion caused by 0.49 microM TPA in the transformation initiated by 1.9 microM 2-methylcholanthrene (MCA). The inhibitory effect of 30 microM quercetin was 56% in the number of foci per dish. Thus quercetin was found to have initiating effect on the transformation of BALB/3T3 cells, but to restrain the promotion by TPA.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Hygienic Sciences, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sakai
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sasaki
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mizusawa
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ishidate
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic / Q000187:drug effects*; D002999:Clone Cells / Q000187:drug effects; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D011794:Quercetin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D011794:Quercetin; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate