Abstract
The present study examines the chemical composition of an evening primrose flavanol preparation (EPFP) and its chemopreventive activity in colon cancer SW-480 cells. EPFP was found to inhibit SW-480 cell viability by 67% vs. controls at 150µM catechin equivalents (CE) following 72h incubation (IC50=65µM CE). EPFP decreased both NF-κB protein expression (33% vs. control at 100µM CE) and phosphorylation at serine 529 of the p65 subunit (49% vs. control at 100µM CE) in SW-480 cells. Moreover, 100µM CE EPFP suppressed COX-2 mRNA expression to 23% of control values and protein expression to 78%. In addition, EPFP reduced MMP-9 protein expression to 24% vs. controls at 100µM CE. These results provide the first evidence that EPFP reduces NF-κB, COX-2, and MMP-9 expression, which may suggest it has cytotoxic, anti-inflammatory, and anti-metastatic activities towards colon cancer cells.
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