The study conducted by a respectable institutions suggested that Chaste tree berry may have a potential effect in reduced risk and treatment of gastric/stomach cancer.
Gastric cancer is a condition of abnormal growth of the mucus-producing cells of the inside lining of the stomach. Adenocarcinoma is the most common type of gastric cancer.
Chaste tree berry is a species of Vitex agnus-castus, genus Vitex, belonging to the family Lamiaceae, native to the Mediterranean region, used in herbal medicine for thousands of years as an aphrodisiac herb and considered as Queen herb in treating menstrual problems and discomforts.
According to the Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, ethanol extract of the dried ripe fruit of Vitex agnus-castus (Vitex) displayed a strong cytotoxic activity against human gastric cancer cells through induction of apoptosis.
The efficacy of anti gastric cancer of the extract is a result of antioxidant activity in reduced progression of oxidative stress which can be detected through
using 2',7'-dichlorofluorescin-diacetate.
Dr.Ohyama K, the lead author said, " Our results demonstrate that intracellular oxidative stress and mitochondrial membrane damage is responsible for Vitex-induced apoptosis, which may be mediated by a diminution of reduced type glutathione within the cell".
Furthermore, in the support of the above differentiation, another study conducted by the same institution, suggested that Vitex extracted expressed similar effect against human gastric signet ring carcinoma cell line, KATO-III, through separating or breaking of DNA in a time- and dose-dependent manner.
Additionally, the study also indicated, Vitex-induced apoptosis by elevated the intracellular oxidative stress and mitochondrial membrane damage of gastric cancer cell lines through the mediation of the presence of reduced type glutathione within the cell.
Other; in the investigate the cytotoxicity of the extract against serval human cancer cell line, including gastric signet ring carcinoma (KATO-III), colon carcinoma (COLO 201), showed that injection of the extract exhibited a significant effect in interference of the cell cycle division, reduced DNA abnormal expression through antioxidative reagent pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate or N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC).
Finally, according to Dr. Ohyama K, the lead author, the cytotoxic activity of Vitex extract may be attributed to the effect on cell growth in the expression of apoptotic cell death by increased intracellular oxidation.
Taking together, chaste tree berry exerted anti-cancer effect through various phytochemicals may be used as a functional food for ameliorated risk and treatment of gastric cancer, but intake of the large amount should be taken with care.
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(1) Human gastric signet ring carcinoma (KATO-III) cell apoptosis induced by Vitex agnus-castus fruit extract through intracellular oxidative stress by Ohyama K1, Akaike T, Imai M, Toyoda H, Hirobe C, Bessho T.(PubMed)
(2) Human gastric signet ring carcinoma (KATO-III) cell apoptosis induced by Vitex agnus-castus fruit extract through intracellular oxidative stress by Ohyama K1, Akaike T, Imai M, Toyoda H, Hirobe C, Bessho T.(PubMed)
(3) Cytotoxicity and apoptotic inducibility of Vitex agnus-castus fruit extract in cultured human normal and cancer cells and effect on growth by Ohyama K1, Akaike T, Hirobe C, Yamakawa T.(PubMed)
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