Toxicity evaluation of some traditional African spices on breast cancer cells and isolated rat hepatic mitochondria

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 4199-4208

  Choumessi, Aphrodite T ^a   Loureiro, Rute ^b   Silva, Ana M ^b   Moreira, Ana C ^b   Pieme, Anatole C ^a   Tazoacha, Asonganyi ^a   Oliveira, Paulo J ^b   Penlap, Véronique B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

African spices; Apoptosis; Cancer cells; Cytotoxicity; Mitochondrial toxicity

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CASPASE 3; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; FAGARA LEPRIEURI EXTRACT; FAGARA XANTHOXYLOIDES EXTRACT; MONDIA WHITEI EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XYLOPIA AETHIOPICA EXTRACT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOCYNACEAE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOENERGY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRAIN MCF 7; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY TEST; DEPOLARIZATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FAGARA LEPRIEURI; FAGARA ZANTHOXYLOIDES; FRUIT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IC 50; LIVER MITOCHONDRION; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MITOCHONDRIAL PERMEABILITY; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; MITOCHONDRIAL TOXICITY; MONDIA WHITEI; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; RUTACEAE; SPICE; XYLOPIA; XYLOPIA AETHIOPICA;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; APOPTOSIS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASPASE 3; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL RESPIRATION; DRUG SCREENING ASSAYS, ANTITUMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MCF-7 CELLS; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL, MITOCHONDRIAL; MITOCHONDRIA, LIVER; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RUTACEAE; SPICES; TOXICITY TESTS; XYLOPIA;

FAGARA; FAGARA XANTHOXYLOIDES; MONDIA WHITEI; RATTUS; XYLOPIA AETHIOPICA;

EID: 84866522308     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: 18736351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2012.08.008     Document Type: Article

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