The Adjuvant Effect of Squalene, an Active Ingredient of Functional Foods, on Doxorubicin-Treated Allograft Mice

摘要

Many functional foods or physiologically active ingredients derived from plants and animals are actively being investigated for their role in chronic disease prevention. Squalene (SQ) is found as active ingredient in the functional foods predominantly present in olive oil and shark liver oil. It is known that during chemotherapy anticancer drugs induce inflammation. SQ has been thought to prevent and suppress inflammation; however, there is little direct evidence available. We examined the adjuvant effect of SQ on tumor-transplanted mice along with anticancer drug doxorubicin (DOX). SQ significantly suppressed the DOX-induced increase in prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) concentration (P?