Article ; Online: Bitter melon extract suppresses metastatic breast cancer cells (MCF-7 cells) growth possibly by hindering glucose uptake.
microPublication biology
2023 Volume 2023
Abstract: Breast cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers among women, however the complete cure for metastatic breast cancer is lacking due to poor prognosis. There has been an increasing trend of dietary modifications including consumption of natural ...
Abstract | Breast cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers among women, however the complete cure for metastatic breast cancer is lacking due to poor prognosis. There has been an increasing trend of dietary modifications including consumption of natural food for the prevention of cancer. One of the popular natural foods is bitter melon. Bitter melon grows in tropical and subtropical areas. Some of the beneficial effects of bitter melon towards disease including cancer have been reported at the whole body/organismal level. However, specific cellular mechanisms by which bitter melon exerts beneficial effects in breast cancer are lacking. In this study, we used a human metastatic breast cancer cell line, MCF-7 cell, to study if bitter melon alters glucose clearance from the culture medium. We co-cultured MCF-7 cells with bitter melon extract in the presence and absence of supplemented insulin and subsequently measured MCF-7 cells viability. In this study, we report a noble finding that bitter melon extract exerts cytotoxic effects on MCF-7 cells possibly via inhibition of glucose uptake. Our findings show that insulin rescues MCF-7 cells from the effects of bitter melon extract. |
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Language | English |
Publishing date | 2023-09-05 |
Publishing country | United States |
Document type | Journal Article |
ISSN | 2578-9430 |
ISSN (online) | 2578-9430 |
DOI | 10.17912/micropub.biology.000961 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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