Sara Damiano , Consiglia Longobardi , Valeria Iervolino , Salvatore Florio , Antonio Giordano , Alessandra Pelagalli , Carmen Avagliano , Chiara Lauritano , Roberto Ciarcia
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Antioxidant and antiproliferative potential activity of the marine carotenoid fucoxanthin in the treatment of chronic blood cancer
The growing interest in functional foods has highlighted the potential of marine-derived compounds in preventing chronic non-communicable diseases, including cancer. Fucoxanthin (FUCO), a xanthophyll carotenoid extracted from brown seaweed, has shown promising biological activity. In this study, we investigated the effects of FUCO on the human chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) K562 cell line. FUCO treatment significantly increased intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels, while glutathione (GSH) and glutathione peroxidase (GPx) levels remained unchanged, suggesting that ROS accumulation may occur independently of antioxidant depletion. Furthermore, FUCO inhibited the Phosphoinositide 3-kinase/ Protein Kinase B/ Mammalian Target of Rapamycin (PI3K/Akt/mTOR) signaling pathway and induced apoptosis in K562 cell line. These findings support the potential role of fucoxanthin as a functional food compound with antioxidant and antiproliferative properties, and its possible application in the prevention and treatment of chronic leukemia.
期刊介绍:
Journal of Functional Foods continues with the same aims and scope, editorial team, submission system and rigorous peer review. We give authors the possibility to publish their top-quality papers in a well-established leading journal in the food and nutrition fields. The Journal will keep its rigorous criteria to screen high impact research addressing relevant scientific topics and performed by sound methodologies.
The Journal of Functional Foods aims to bring together the results of fundamental and applied research into healthy foods and biologically active food ingredients.
The Journal is centered in the specific area at the boundaries among food technology, nutrition and health welcoming papers having a good interdisciplinary approach. The Journal will cover the fields of plant bioactives; dietary fibre, probiotics; functional lipids; bioactive peptides; vitamins, minerals and botanicals and other dietary supplements. Nutritional and technological aspects related to the development of functional foods and beverages are of core interest to the journal. Experimental works dealing with food digestion, bioavailability of food bioactives and on the mechanisms by which foods and their components are able to modulate physiological parameters connected with disease prevention are of particular interest as well as those dealing with personalized nutrition and nutritional needs in pathological subjects.