@article{
author = "Mićanović, Dragica and Stojanović, Ivana D. and Koprivica, Ivan and Pejnović, Nada and Šavikin, Katarina and Ćujić-Nikolić, Nada and Saksida, Tamara",
year = "2022",
abstract = "Chokeberry has exhibited cardioprotective, anti-bacterial, immunomodulating and anti-cancer properties. Chokeberry extract (CE) was tested in the model of melanoma induced by B16 cells inoculation in C57BL/6 mice.
CE treatment that began 7 days before inoculation and continued through the observation period, delayed melanoma appearance and increased infiltration of immune cells in the tumor microenvironment (TME). Levels of TNF, perforin, granzyme B and IL-1β did not differ between the CE-treated and control animals, but the TME of CE-treated mice contained more IFN-γ-producing cells and a lesser frequency of CCR5-expressing MDSC. In vitro, CE displayed no direct cytotoxicity to B16 cells. However, splenocytes isolated from CE-treated animals exerted strong cytotoxic effect on B16 cells in vitro. Neutralization of IFN-γ diminished the observed B16 death, suggesting that this effect was mediated mainly by splenocyte-derived IFN-γ.
In conclusion, pre-treatment with CE stimulated the anti-tumor immune response by enhancing IFN-γ-producing cells to act against melanoma.",
publisher = "Amsterdam : Elsevier",
journal = "Journal of Functional Foods",
title = "Chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa) fruit extract abrogates melanoma progression through boosting up IFN-γ-producing cells",
volume = "95",
doi = "10.1016/j.jff.2022.105185",
pages = "105185"
}