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Year: 2013 | Volume: 13 | Issue: 6 | Page No.: 534-539
DOI: 10.3923/jbs.2013.534.539
Demonstration of Differential Anti-Neoplastic Potentials of Oroxylum indicum Ethyl Acetate Extracts in Human Breast Cancer Cells
D.R. Naveen Kumar, V. Cijo George, P. K. Suresh and R. Ashok Kumar

Abstract: In the current scenario, medicinal plant research focuses on developing cancer-specific chemotherapeutic drugs which simultaneously render protection to normal cells. Hence, our study aimed to investigate the differential anti-neoplastic potentials of Oroxylum indicum ethyl acetate extracts (hot-EHO and cold-ECO). Cancer-cell-specific cytotoxicity of extracts was studied on MDA-MB-231 (cancer cells) and WRL-68 (normal cells). ECO showed significantly (p<0.05) better cytotoxicity in MDA-MB-231 cells (IC50 = 95.152.41 μg mL-1) than in WRL-68 cells (IC50 = 203.542.96 μg mL-1), thus substantiating cancer-cell-specific cytotoxicity. The mechanism behind cytotoxicity was further corroborated through apoptosis induction in MDA-MB-231 and MCF-7 cells. ECO has exhibited dose-dependent apoptotic induction in both the cells. ECO also showed evident anti-metastatic potential by significantly (p<0.05) inhibiting migration of metastatic breast cancer cells (MDA-MB-231). Over all, ECO exhibited efficient anti-breast cancer potentials and thus could be considered as a source harboring phytocomponents to possibly treat malignant breast cancer.

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D.R. Naveen Kumar, V. Cijo George, P. K. Suresh and R. Ashok Kumar, 2013. Demonstration of Differential Anti-Neoplastic Potentials of Oroxylum indicum Ethyl Acetate Extracts in Human Breast Cancer Cells. Journal of Biological Sciences, 13: 534-539.

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