An overview of the effect of linoleic and conjugated‐linoleic acids on the growth of several human tumor cell lines
Open Access
- 12 August 2004
- journal article
- carcinogenesis
- Published by Wiley in International Journal of Cancer
- Vol. 112 (6), 909-919
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.20519
Abstract
Both n-6 and n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids are dietary fats important for cell function, being involved in several physiologic and pathologic processes, such as tumorigenesis. Linoleic acid and conjugated linoleic acid, its geometrical and positional stereoisomer, were tested on several human tumor cell lines originating from different tissues and with different degrees of malignancy. This was to provide the widest possible view of the impact of dietary lipids on tumor development. While linoleic acid exerted different effects, ranging from inhibitory to neutral, even promoting growth, conjugated linoleic acid inhibited growth in all lines tested and was particularly effective against the more malignant cells, with the exception of mammary tumor cells, in which behavior was the opposite, the more malignant cell line being less affected. The inhibitory effect of conjugated linoleic acid on growth may be accompanied by different contributions from apoptosis and necrosis. The effects of conjugated linoleic acid on growth or death involved positive or negative variations in PPARs. The important observation is that a big increase of PPARα protein occurred in cells undergoing strong induction of apoptosis, whereas PPARβ/δ protein decreased. Although PPARα and PPARβ/δ seem to be correlated to execution of the apoptotic program, the modulation of PPARγ appears to depend on the type of tumor cell, increasing as protein content, when inhibition of cell proliferation occurred. In conclusion, CLA may be regarded as a component of the diet that exerts antineoplastic activity and its effect may be antiproliferative or pro-apoptotic.Keywords
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