Anti-angiogenic activities of Cnidium officinale Makino and Tabanus bovinus.
This study investigated the anti-angiogenic activities of Cnidium officinale Makino and Tabanus bovinus by using cultured glomerular capillary endothelial cells (GECs), chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) and rat cornea. Treatment of GECs with several concentrations (5-50 microg/ml) of C. officinale Makino and T. bovinus extracts for 24 h inhibited angiotensin II (10(-8) M)-induced increases of [3H]thymidine uptake and cell numbers in a concentration-dependent manner. The extent of inhibitory rate of [3H]thymidine incorporation by C. officinale Makino and T. bovinus at 50 microg/ml was a similar to that by 10(-5) M of retinoic acid. Herbal extracts also conspicuously inhibited the neovascularization. In contrast to the normal branching of vascular vessels, blood vessel patterns in CAMs treated with extracts (50 microg per egg) of C. officinale Makino and T. bovinus were ran parallel to each other without much branching. Moreover, oral administration of herbal extracts (20 mg/kg per day) for 4 weeks significantly inhibited the rat corneal neovascularization induced by suture, and the length of blood vessels in herbal medicine-treated rat cornea was conspicuously lower than that in control animals. A similar inhibitory effect to these was also observed in the rat cornea treated with thalidomide (200 mg/kg per day). These findings indicate that the anti-angiogenic properties of C. officinale Makino and T. bovinus may be one of the pharmacological mechanisms underlying the anti-tumor and anti-metastatic activities of herbal extracts tested in this study.
Division of Biological Science, College of Natural Sciences, Wonkwang University, 344-2 Shinyong-dong, Iksan, Jeonbuk 570-749, South Korea.
Dong Hoon
DH
Kwak
Jin Kyeoung
JK
Kim
Ji Yeoun
JY
Kim
Heun Young
HY
Jeong
Kyung Soo
KS
Keum
Sun Hee
SH
Han
Young Il
YI
Rho
Won Hong
WH
Woo
Kyu Yong
KY
Jung
Bong Kyu
BK
Choi
Young Kug
YK
Choo
D000284:Administration, Oral; D000482:Allantois / Q000098:blood supply / Q000187:drug effects; D020533:Angiogenesis Inhibitors / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000818:Animals; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002642:Chick Embryo; D002823:Chorion / Q000098:blood supply / Q000187:drug effects; D031048:Cnidium / Q000737:chemistry*; D003315:Cornea / Q000098:blood supply / Q000187:drug effects; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004730:Endothelium, Vascular / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects; D007678:Kidney Glomerulus / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects; D008297:Male; D018919:Neovascularization, Physiologic / Q000187:drug effects*; D010936:Plant Extracts / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley
D020533:Angiogenesis Inhibitors; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D010936:Plant Extracts