Fol. Biol. 2012, 58, 166-172
Resveratrol Inhibits Proliferation of Primary Rat Hepatocytes in G0/G1 by Inhibiting DNA Synthesis
Resveratrol is a phytoalexin that has been shown to inhibit cell proliferation of several cancer cell lines. In some cases this inhibition was specific for the transformed cells when compared with normal cells of the same tissue. To test whether this was the case in rat hepatocytes, we exposed primary rat hepatocytes in culture and transformed rat hepatic cells to this compound and studied its effect on cell proliferation, measuring deoxy-bromouridine incorporation and total DNA. We also studied the effect of resveratrol on the cell cycle of normal and transformed rat hepatocytes. We observed that resveratrol inhibited proliferation in a dose-dependent manner in both cases, with no differential action in the transformed cells compared to the normal ones. This compound arrested the cell cycle in G0/G1 in primary hepatocytes, while it arrested the cell cycle in G2/M in transformed cells. Transformed hepatocytes showed accumulation of cells in the S phase of the cell cycle.
Keywords
resveratrol, epidermal growth factor, primary and transformed hepatocytes, proliferation inhibition, cell cycle inhibition.
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