Identification of bioactive constituents of Ziziphus jujube fruit extracts exerting antiproliferative and apoptotic effects in human breast cancer cells

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 325-332

  Plastina, Pierluigi ^a   Bonofiglio, Daniela ^a   Vizza, Donatella ^a   Fazio, Alessia ^a   Rovito, Daniela ^a   Giordano, Cinzia ^a   Barone, Ines ^a   Catalano, Stefania ^a   Gabriele, Bartolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Breast cancer; Traditional Chinese medicine; Triterpenic acids; Ziziphus jujube

Indexed keywords

ALPHITOLIC ACID; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; BEHENIC ACID; BETA ACTIN; BETULIC ACID; BETULONIC ACID; CEANOTHIC ACID; EPICEANOTHIC ACID; LAURIC ACID; LINOLEIC ACID; LINOLENIC ACID; MASLINIC ACID; MYRISTIC ACID; MYRISTOLEIC ACID; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; OLEANOLIC ACID; OLEIC ACID; PALMITIC ACID; PALMITOLEIC ACID; PLANT EXTRACT; POMONIC ACID; PROTEIN BAD; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BID; PROTOCATECHUIC ACID; STEARIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; URSOLIC ACID; ZIZIPHUS JUJUBE EXTRACT;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ANTIPROLIFERATIVE ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRAIN MCF 7; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NICK END LABELING; RHAMNACEAE; ZIZIPHUS JUJUBE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; APOPTOSIS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; FRUIT; HUMANS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; PHYTOTHERAPY; TRITERPENES; ZIZIPHUS;

ZIZIPHUS;

EID: 84858004683     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2012.01.022     Document Type: Article

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