Abstract
The effects of biochanin A on the growth and differentiation of a recently characterized myeloid leukemia cell line WEHI-3B (JCS) were investigated. Biochanin A not only inhibited the growth of JCS cells in a dose-dependent manner (0-200 μM) but also induced the morphological differentiation of JCS cells. The phagocytic activity of biochanin A-treated JCS cells was also increased. Flow cytometric analysis showed that the expression of macrophage differentation markers Mac-1 and F4/80 was up-regulated in biochanin A-treated JCS cells. The expression level of Mac-1 was higher than that of F4/80. The expression of cytokine genes was studied by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and cycle titration. mRNA levels of IL-1α, IL-1β and IL-4 were found to be up-regulated at 46 hours after incubation of JCS cells with biochanin A. Although the expression of LIF was also up-regulated, the LIF receptor gene was not expressed in the uninduced or induced JCS cells. Our results that IL-1α, IL-1β and IL-4 may act on the later stage of biochanin A-mediated differentation of JCS cells.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 105-115 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Life Sciences |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 6 Jun 1997 |
Scopus Subject Areas
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics(all)
User-Defined Keywords
- Anti-leukemia
- Biochanin A
- Myeloid leukemia