The Functional Properties of Preserved Eggs: From Anti-cancer and Anti-inflammatory Aspects

Mao, Changyi; Yu, Zhihui; Li, Chengliang; Jin, Yongguo; Ma, Meihu

In vivo animal experiments, we found that fed with low-dose of preserved eggs could reduce the contents of IL-6 and TNFα in rat's cytokines contents effectively, which are served as the key substances to induce cell transformation and malignancy in the course of chronic inflammation (Tang et al., 2013; Zhu et al., 2014) . Our results are consistent with the evidences from tumor cell experiments. It could be ascribed to that the active components in preserved eggs can repressed the release of IL-6 and TNF-α. This result is consistent with the results of other studies (Zhao et al., 2017) . Combinning with the results of cell apoptosis, we suspected that this is more likely to be related to mitochondrial pathways (Dassé et al., 2007; Lanvin et al., 2004) . Therefore, we will focus on the mechanism of mitochondrial pathways in the following studies.