Anticancer effects of fucoxanthin and fucoxanthinol on colorectal cancer cell lines and colorectal cancer tissues

  • Authors:
    • Kazuto Takahashi
    • Masashi Hosokawa
    • Hiroyuki Kasajima
    • Kazuteru Hatanaka
    • Kazuhiro Kudo
    • Norihiko Shimoyama
    • Kazuo Miyashita
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  • Published online on: June 16, 2015     https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2015.3380
  • Pages: 1463-1467
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Abstract

Colorectal cancer is one of the most malignant neoplasms worldwide. Fucoxanthin is a carotenoid present in the chloroplasts of brown seaweeds. In the present study, the anticancer effects of fucoxanthin and its metabolite, fucoxanthinol, on 6 colorectal cancer cell lines and 20 tissue samples from surgically resected clinical colorectal cancer specimens were examined using a collagen‑gel droplet embedded culture drug sensitivity test (CD‑DST). The in vitro sensitivity to fucoxanthin, fucoxanthinol and the anticancer drugs is expressed as T/C (%), where T is the absorbance of cells which stained by neutral red treated with carotenoids and C is the absorbance of non‑staining cells. Fucoxanthin and fucoxanthinol decreased the T/C (%) of Caco‑2, WiDr, HCT116, and DLD‑1 cell lines at doses of 20 µM. Fucoxanthinol also decreased the T/C (%) of SW620 cells, while the T/C (%) of Colo205 cells was not reduced by treatment with either carotenoid. Specifically, the T/C (%) of Caco‑2 and WiDr cells, which were incubated in carotenoid‑free medium for 6 days following treatment with 20 µM fucoxanthinol for 24 h, was markedly decreased to 1.4±0.2 and 12.0±0.3%, respectively. Furthermore, fucoxanthin and fucoxanthinol decreased the T/C (%) in colorectal cancer tissue samples. Notably, 20 µM fucoxanthinol treatment resulted in a higher proportion of colorectal cancer samples with a T/C (%) of <50% (13/20, 65%) compared with samples treated with 20 µM fucoxanthin (2/20, 10%). The median T/C (%) value of 35.1% for the 20 cancers specimens treated with 20 µM fucoxanthinol was lower than the median T/C (%) values of 86.3% and 75.8% for those treated with fluorouracil and paclitaxel, respectively. These results suggested that fucoxanthin and fucoxanthinol may be of use as chemotherapeutic agents in colorectal cancer.
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Takahashi K, Hosokawa M, Kasajima H, Hatanaka K, Kudo K, Shimoyama N and Miyashita K: Anticancer effects of fucoxanthin and fucoxanthinol on colorectal cancer cell lines and colorectal cancer tissues. Oncol Lett 10: 1463-1467, 2015
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Takahashi, K., Hosokawa, M., Kasajima, H., Hatanaka, K., Kudo, K., Shimoyama, N., & Miyashita, K. (2015). Anticancer effects of fucoxanthin and fucoxanthinol on colorectal cancer cell lines and colorectal cancer tissues. Oncology Letters, 10, 1463-1467. https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2015.3380
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Takahashi, K., Hosokawa, M., Kasajima, H., Hatanaka, K., Kudo, K., Shimoyama, N., Miyashita, K."Anticancer effects of fucoxanthin and fucoxanthinol on colorectal cancer cell lines and colorectal cancer tissues". Oncology Letters 10.3 (2015): 1463-1467.
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Takahashi, K., Hosokawa, M., Kasajima, H., Hatanaka, K., Kudo, K., Shimoyama, N., Miyashita, K."Anticancer effects of fucoxanthin and fucoxanthinol on colorectal cancer cell lines and colorectal cancer tissues". Oncology Letters 10, no. 3 (2015): 1463-1467. https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2015.3380