title: Effect of cordycepin (3'-deoxyadenosine) on hematogenic lung metastatic model mice.
abstract: We investigated the anti-metastatic effect of cordycepin (3'-deoxyadenosine) on a hematogenic metastatic mouse model which was intravenously injected with B16-BL6 melanoma cells. A 3-hour exposure to various concentrations of cordycepin (0.3, 1 and 3 microg/ml) dose-dependently reduced the number of nodules formed in lung at 15 days after the tumor injection. To elucidate the mechanism of this anti-metastatic effect, we examined the effect of cordycepin on the invasiveness of B16-BL6 cells using a chemo-invasion chamber in vitro. The B16-BL6 cells pretreated with cordycepin (3 microg/ml) for 3 hours showed a significant decrease in invasiveness. Under the same conditions, however, cordycepin did not influence the growth curve of B16-BL6 cells at concentrations up to 3 microg/ml. These results suggest that cordycepin exerts an anti-metastatic action, in part, by inhibiting the invasiveness of mouse melanoma cells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Mukogawa Women's University, Nishinomiya, Hyogo 663-8179, Japan. lfp51193@mwu.mukogawa-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Kazuki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: Keiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Konoha
authors.forename: Noriko
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Yoshikawa
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamaguchi
authors.forename: Satomi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kagota
authors.forename: Kazumasa
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shinozuka
authors.forename: Masaru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kunitomo
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D003839:Deoxyadenosines / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D005260:Female; D007275:Injections, Intravenous; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000556:secondary*; D008546:Melanoma, Experimental / Q000473:pathology; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness / Q000517:prevention & control; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009368:Neoplasm Transplantation; D013047:Specific Pathogen-Free Organisms; D013997:Time Factors; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D003839:Deoxyadenosines; C058120:cordycepin