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- Title
Antimutagenicity and Antioxidant Activity of Castanea sativa Mill. Bark Extract.
- Authors
Gasperini, Sofia; Greco, Giulia; Angelini, Sabrina; Hrelia, Patrizia; Fimognari, Carmela; Lenzi, Monia
- Abstract
Castanea sativa Mill. (Cs), a plant traditionally employed in nutrition and to treat various respiratory and gastrointestinal infections, possesses cancer chemopreventive characteristics. In particular, Cs bark extract previously demonstrated antiproliferative and pro-apoptotic activities against a leukemic lymphoblastic cell line. Starting from this evidence, the aim of this paper was to investigate the possibility to affect also the earlier phases of the carcinogenic process by evaluating Cs bark extract's antimutagenic properties, in particular using the "In Vitro Mammalian Cell Micronucleus Test" on TK6 cells performed by flow cytometry. For this purpose, since an ideal chemopreventive agent should be virtually nontoxic, the first step was to exclude the extract's genotoxicity. Afterwards, the antimutagenic effect of the extract was evaluated against two known mutagens, the clastogen mitomycin C (MMC) and the aneugen vinblastine (VINB). Our results indicate that Cs bark extract protected cells from MMC-induced damage (micronuclei frequency fold increase reduction from 2.9 to 1.8) but not from VINB. Moreover, we demonstrated that Cs bark extract was a strong antioxidant and significantly reduced MMC-induced ROS levels by over 2 fold. Overall, our research supports the assumption that Cs bark extract can counteract MMC mutagenicity by possibly scavenging ROS production.
- Subjects
CHESTNUT; BARK; MITOMYCIN C; FLOW cytometry; EXTRACTS; NUCLEOLUS
- Publication
Pharmaceutics, 2023, Vol 15, Issue 10, p2465
- ISSN
1999-4923
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/pharmaceutics15102465