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KMID : 1140120050100020116
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Cancer Prevention Research
2005 Volume.10 No. 2 p.116 ~ p.123
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Anti-inflammatory Effects of Resveratrol and Its Analogs: COX-2 and iNOS as Potential Targets
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Park Eun-Jung
Lee Sang-Kook
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Abstract
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It has been known that resveratrol, a phytoalexin mainly present in grapes, has antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and cancer chemopreventive activities. One mechanism of its anti-inflammation and cancer prevention is considered to modulate cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) and inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) activities. Since COX-2 and iNOS play important roles in inflammation and carcinogenesis, the potential COX-2 and iNOS inhibitors have been considered as anti-inflammatory or cancer chemopreventive agents. In order to discover novel chemopreventive agents, we synthesized about thirty analogs of resveratrol and evaluated their COX-2 and iNOS inhibitory activities with the production of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) and nitric oxide (NO) in RAW 264.7 cells, respectively. As a result, several compounds exhibited more potent inhibitory activity than resveratrol. Among them, 2-[2-(3,5-dimethoxy-phenyl)-vinyl]-furane which showed inhibitory effects on both PGE2 and NO production was further investigated its mechanism of action on COX-2 and iNOS activities and their expressions. This compound suppressed the lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced COX-2 and iNOS protein and mRNA expression. In addition, electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA) study revealed that the suppressions of the COX-2 and iNOS gene expression were related to the inhibition of NF-κB binding activity. Further study exhibited that 2-[2-(3,5-dimethoxy-phenyl)-vinyl]-furane inhibited IκB-α degradation in LPS-stimulated macrophage cells. These findings suggest that 2-[2-(3,5-dimethoxy-phenyl)-vinyl]-furane might be a promising candidate for developing cancer chemopreventive agent.
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KEYWORD
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Cancer prevention, Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), Inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), Resveratol analogs
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