title: [The effect of Angelica sinensis on adhesion, invasion, migration and metastasis of melanoma cells].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the effect of Angelica sinensis on invasion, adhesion, migration and metastasis of B16-BL6 metastatic mouse melanoma cells and discuss its functional mechanism.
  
  
  METHODS
  The proliferation, adhesion, invasion and migration capacity of B16-BL6 metastatic cells was evaluated by MTT assay, adhesion assay and reconstituted basement membrane invasion and migration assay in vitro respectively. Mouse spontaneous melanoma model was used to study the effect of Angelica sinensis on metastasis in vivo.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The extract of Angelica sinensis inhibited the proliferation of B16-BL6 metastatic cells and its migration capacity significantly. It regulated bidirectionally the adhesion of B16-BL6 metastatic cells to the basement component laminin while it had no effect on the invasion capacity. In the mouse spotaneous melanoma model, the lung metastatic nodes number and its volume were significantly decreased after continuously treated with the extract of Angelica sinensis at the concentration of 3.67 mg/kg.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The extract of Angelica sinensis can inhibit the metastasis of of B16-BL6 metastatic mouse melanoma cells and its mechanism is maybe that Angelica sinensis can inhibit the B16-BL6 cells adhering to the ECM and reduce the migration of B16-BL6 cells.
authors.affiliation: First Clinical College, Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210046, China. gq840701@yahoo.com.cn
authors.forename: Qin
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.forename: Jian-ya
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Luo-gen
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: Wei-jun
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Xia
mesh_terms: D029971:Angelica sinensis / Q000737:chemistry*; D000818:Animals; D002448:Cell Adhesion / Q000187:drug effects; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D002465:Cell Movement / Q000187:drug effects*; D007797:Laminin; D008545:Melanoma / Q000473:pathology*; D051379:Mice; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis
chemical_list: D007797:Laminin