The invention discloses an application of miR408 in preparation of a
medicine for treating tumors. The invention finds that the
ginseng miR408 transferred into the body of a mouse through the
exosome can still maintain better integrity and stability; through overexpression of
ginseng miR408 in
breast cancer MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231 cells, it is found that after overexpression of
ginseng miR408, proliferation, migration and invasion of
tumor cells can be significantly inhibited,
cell apoptosis can be promoted, and CCND1 mRNA and
protein expression levels can be reduced; a mouse gavage experiment also shows that the ginseng miR408 can significantly inhibit the growth of
breast cancer mouse tumors. The application shows that the ginseng miR408 can enter the body to treat the
breast cancer in an
exosome manner, a new way is provided for treating the breast
cancer, the problems of untoward effects and the like existing in existing
medicine treatment are solved, and a new action mechanism and a new research direction are provided for ginseng in the aspect of breast
cancer treatment.