TY - JOUR A2 - Ranieri, Danilo AU - Zhang, Kai AU - Peng, Tao AU - Yan, Qingying AU - Sun, Leitao AU - Miao, Haojun AU - Yuan, Li AU - Hong, Yuxin AU - Zhou, Mengmeng AU - Guo, Kaibo AU - Zhang, Leyin AU - Fang, Jing AU - Shen, Minhe AU - Ruan, Shanming PY - 2018 DA - 2018/09/25 TI - Jiedu Sangen Decoction Inhibits Migration and Invasion of Colon Cancer SW480 Cells via Suppressing Epithelial Mesenchymal Transition SP - 1495768 VL - 2018 AB - Jiedu Sangen Decoction (JSD), a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) formula, has been widely used in China to treat gastrointestinal cancer, especially as an adjuvant therapy in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients. This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of JSD and Jiedu Sangen aqueous extract (JSAE) in colon cancer cells and explored the underlining mechanisms by cytotoxicity assay, scratch assay, transwell migration assay, matrigel invasion assay, confocal laser scanning microscopy, and western blot analysis. We demonstrated that JSAE inhibited the growth of colon cancer SW480 cells in a dose-dependent manner and JSAE repressed cancer cell migration and invasion. Furthermore, epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) was reversed by JSAE via enhancing E-cadherin expression and attenuating protein levels of EMT promoting factors such as N-cadherin, Slug, and ZEB1. These findings provided the first experimental evidence confirming the efficacy of JSAE in repressing invasion and metastasis of CRC and paving a way for the broader use of JSD in clinic. SN - 1741-427X UR - https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/1495768 DO - 10.1155/2018/1495768 JF - Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine PB - Hindawi KW - ER -