Project description:Indole-3-carbinol is used as a dietary supplement and has potential use as a therapeutic agent for the prevention of various types of cancer. While substantial evidence exists that indole-3-carbinol can reduce the risk of cancers induced by several known carcinogens when administered to animals, indole-3-carbinol can also function as an initiator and tumor promoter in certain models. The carcinogenic potential of indole-3-carbinol has not been studied in a 2-year bioassay. The objective of the microarray study was to evaluate the transcriptional changes in liver from rats exposed to 0 or 300 mg/kg indole-3-carbinol. At 3 months, livers were analyzed from female Harlan Sprague Dawley rats in the 2-year gavage study of indole-3-carbinol.
Project description:Indole-3-carbinol is used as a dietary supplement and has potential use as a therapeutic agent for the prevention of various types of cancer. While substantial evidence exists that indole-3-carbinol can reduce the risk of cancers induced by several known carcinogens when administered to animals, indole-3-carbinol can also function as an initiator and tumor promoter in certain models. The carcinogenic potential of indole-3-carbinol has not been studied in a 2-year bioassay. The objective of the microarray study was to evaluate the transcriptional changes in liver from rats exposed to 0 or 300 mg/kg indole-3-carbinol. At 3 months, livers were analyzed from female Harlan Sprague Dawley rats in the 2-year gavage study of indole-3-carbinol. Female rats were administered 300 mg indole-3-carbinol/kg body weight in corn oil by gavage, 5 days per week in a 2 year toxicology study of indole-3-carbinol. Gene expression studies were performed on rat liver with samples hybridized to whole rat genome RG230_2.0 rat GeneChip arrays (Affymetrix, CA).
Project description:We previously showed that exposure of rats to environmental cigarette smoke (ECS) causes extensive downregulation of microRNA expression in the lung, resulting in overexpression of multiple genes and proteins. In the present study, we evaluated by microarray the expression of 484 microRNAs in the lung of rats receiving orally chemopreventive agents, including N-acetylcysteine, oltipraz, indole-3-carbinol, 5,6-benzoflavone and phenethyl isothiocyanate, or combinations thereof. Scatterplot, hierarchical cluster, and principal component analyses showed that none of the above chemopreventive regimens appreciably affected the baseline microRNA expression, while all of them attenuated ECS-induced alterations but to a variable extent. Thus, mirnome analysis provides a new tool for predicting both safety and efficacy of cancer chemopreventive agents at early carcinogenesis stages. Keywords: cancer chemoprevention, microRNA, environmental cigarete smoke (ECS), 5,6-benzoflavone (BF), Indole 3-carbinol (I3C),N-acetylcysteine (NAC), oltipraz (OPZ), Phenethyl isothiocyanate (PEITC). Adult male Sprague-Dawley rats (Harlan Italy, Correzzana, Milan, Italy), weighing 315-320 g, were divided into 16 groups, each composed of 8 animals. Half of them were exposed to ECS for 28 consecutive days, as previously described (Izzotti et al., 2005), while the remaining rats (Sham-exposed) were kept for the same period of time in filtered air. The rats belonging to 14 groups were treated with chemopreventive agents, starting 3 days before exposure to ECS.
Project description:Rodent studies have indicated that gestational and perinatal bisphenol A (BPA) exposure increase the risk of developing breast cancer during adulthood. In contrast, some dietary compounds such as genistein (GEN) and indole 3-carbinol (I3C) present potential protective effects against inducing hormone-dependent cancers, including that of the mammary gland. Thus, we aimed to evaluate the role of these dietary compounds on early mammary gland development and carcinogenesis in female Sprague-Dawley offspring. Pregnant Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were treated with BPA at 25 or 250µg/kg b.w./day by gavage from gestational day (GD) 10 to 21 with or without dietary GEN (250 mg/kg chow, ~5.5 mg/kg b.w./day) or I3C (2000 mg/kg chow, ~45.0 mg/kg b.w./day). At post-natal day (PND) 21, some female offspring from different litters were euthanized for mammary gland development and gene expression analyses while other female offspring received a single dose of N-methyl-N-nitrosourea (MNU) for mammary carcinogenesis initiation. The findings this study indicated the prenatal exposure to BPA, GEN and I3C did not significantly alter ductal elongation, number of terminal end buds (TEB) or cell proliferation, and estrogen receptor alpha (ER-α) immunostaining expression in epithelial mammary cells at PND 21. BPA treatment modulated the expression of several genes, but these changes were not associated with a dose dependent response. Dietary GEN and I3C treatment causally and consistent with the mammary gland structures outcomes. Besides, maternal BPA exposure associated with dietary GEN and I3C did not alter the susceptibility to the mammary cancer development in adulthood when the carcinogen was administered in a window of immature mammary gland development.
Project description:Indole-3-carbinol (I3C) is a natural anti-carcinogenic compound found at high concentrations in Brassica vegetables. ER-positive cell lines demonstrated the greatest sensitivity to the anti-tumor effects of I3C compared to ER-negative breast cancer cell lines. Gene expression analysis was performed to identify genes and pathways that accounted for sensitivity to I3C. Microarray analysis performed using Illumina HT-12 v4 expression arrays A total of 36 samples were analyzed with six breast cancer cell lines treated with either the vehicle control or the drug Indole-3-carbinol in triplicate. The cell lines were: MCF-7, T47D, ZR751(sensitive to the drug, apoptosis/growth arrest) and MDA-MB-231, MDA-MB-157, and MDA-MB-436 (insensitive to the drug). Sensitive cell lines are of the luminal subtype and insensitive cell lines are of the basal subtype.
Project description:Indole-3-carbinol (I3C) is a natural anti-carcinogenic compound found at high concentrations in Brassica vegetables. ER-positive cell lines demonstrated the greatest sensitivity to the anti-tumor effects of I3C compared to ER-negative breast cancer cell lines. Gene expression analysis was performed to identify genes and pathways that accounted for sensitivity to I3C. Microarray analysis performed using Illumina HT-12 v4 expression arrays
Project description:Mice were fed with a synthetic diet enriched or not in Indole-3-carbinol (I3C). Papain or vehicle (PBS) was injected in the footpad. After 6h, epidermal cells were extracted and subjected to RNA-seq analysis.
Project description:We examined the differential expression of miRNAs in vinyl carbamate (VC)-induced lung tumors in A/J mice and assessed if the chemopreventive agent indole-3-carbinol (I3C) reversed the effects of the carcinogen. Microarray studies revealed some up-regulated microRNAs, but down-regulation of several microRNAs in carcinogen-treated mice relative to vehicle-treated mice. Keywords: Expression micro and control RNA from control treated (3 replicates), vinyl carbamate treated (4 replicates) and vinyl carbamate and indole-3-carbinol treated mice was hybridized versus synthetic human DNA to a custom multi-organism oligonucleotide array.
Project description:LPS induces a variety of changes to the lung immune cell landscape, this is also true with the treatment of Indole-3-Carbinol (I3C). We used single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) to analyze the diversity of immune cells in the lung.
Project description:Transcriptome analysis was performed on enriched colon-dervied epithelial cells from non-colitis and TNBS-induced female Balb/cJ mice untreated or treated with indole-3-carbinol (I3C). We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression to identify distinct classes of upregulated and downregulated genes among experimental groups.