title: [Research of anti-proliferation of curcumin on A549 human lung cancer cells and its mechanism].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the mechanism of anti-tumor effects of curcumin on human lung cancer cell (A549).
  
  
  METHODS
  MTT colorimetry method, fluoroscope, FCM combine PI and Annexin V-FITC double pigmentation method and Western blot method were used.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Under the effect of the curcumin, cell grew against the wall and suspended in the culture liquid, the A549 cell nucleolus were found fragmentated into different size of apoptosis body under fluoroscopy. The cell proliferation were obvious suppressed after treated with different concentration curcumin for 72 hours. The IC50 were 18 micromol/L by using linear regression. The apoptosis induced by curcumin of A549 cell is concentration dependent. With curcumin increased from 5 micromol/L to 30 micromol/L, Annexin-FITC single positive cell (early apoptosis cell) increased from 3.4% to 59.1%. When curcumin concentration reached 40 micromol/L, PI and Annexin V-FITC double positive cell (secondary apoptosis necrosis cell) became major part of cells, and the cell showed G2 phase block. Observed with western blot method, with the increase of curcumin concentration to 10 micromol/L, the expression of PARP increased simultaneously.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Curcumin can interfere cell growth cycle of A549 cell and suppress cell growth. The suppression effect is concentration dependent. The effect depends not only from the nonspecific cytotoxic but also from induced cell apoptosis.
authors.affiliation: Respiratory Department of Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi' an.
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Haowen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Qi
authors.forename: Changgui
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology; D000972:Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic / Q000494:pharmacology; D017209:Apoptosis / Q000187:drug effects*; D002453:Cell Cycle / Q000187:drug effects; D049109:Cell Proliferation / Q000187:drug effects*; D003474:Curcumin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005434:Flow Cytometry; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D011065:Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerases / Q000378:metabolism; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D000972:Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal; D011065:Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerases; D003474:Curcumin