An Experimental Study on Effects of Distilled White-ginseng Herbal Acupuncture on A549 human ephithelial lung cancer cell in vitro and implanted Sarcoma-180 in vivo

• Main Authors: Jong-Seong We, Ki-Rok Kwon, Hee-Soo Park
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Korean Pharmacopuncture Institute 2004-12-01
• Series: Journal of Pharmacopuncture
• Subjects: Distilled white-ginseng; Herbal Acupuncture; Sarcoma-180 cancer cell; IL-2; IL-4; IL-10; IFN-γ; Cytokine mRNA
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3831/KPI.2004.7.3.059
• ISSN: 2093-6966; 2234-6856

Objectives : In order to investigate effects and immune improvement of distilled white-ginseng herbal extract, expression of Cox-1, Cox-2, and mRNA of Bcl-2 and Bax were analyzed in A549 cell in vivo. Survival time and expression of cytokine mRNA were measured for the mice with Sarcoma-180 induced abdominal cancer. Methods : Balb/c mouse was treated with distilled white-ginseng Herbal Acupuncture at Wisu(BL21) and Chung-wan(CV12) to investigate anti-cancer effects and immune response. Results : 1. For expression of mRNA of Cox-1 using RT-PCR, the control group and the experiment groups show significant increase. For Cox-2, both experiment groups and the normal group showed significant decrease. For Bcl-2, experiment groups showed slight decrease compared to the control group. For Bax, no significant changes were shown between the control group and experiment groups. 2.For survival time, all of experiment groups didn't show significant differences. 3.For IL-2 productivity using Flow cytometry, experiment group I didn't show any significance, For IL-4, all of experiment groups showed slight decrease compared to the control group. 4. For IL-2 productivity using ELISA, experiment groupI showed slight decrease compared to the control group, experiment group II didn't show any significance. 5.For expression of cytokine mRNA using RT-PCR, significant increase of IL-2 and IL-4 were witnessed in the experiment groupI compared to the control group. Significant decrease of IL-10 was shown in all of experiment groups compared to the control group. Conclusion : According to the results, we can expect that distilled white-ginseng Herbal Acupuncture may be further effects in anti-cancer and immune improvement if increasing concentration.