Anticancer potential of Conium maculatum extract against cancer cells in vitro: Drug-DNA interaction and its ability to induce apoptosis through ROS generation

Pharmacognosy Magazine

Volumn 10, Issue 39, 2014, Pages S524-S533

  Mondal, Jesmin ^a   Panigrahi, Ashis ^a   Khuda Bukhsh, Anisur Rahman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KALYANI   (India)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Conium maculatum; drug DNA interaction; proliferation; reactive oxygen species

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CASPASE 3; CONIUM MACULATUM EXTRACT; CYTOCHROME C; DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN KINASE B; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

A375 CELL LINE; A549 CELL LINE; ANIMAL CELL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIPROLIFERATIVE ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL LINE; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL DEATH; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG DNA INTERACTION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HELA CELL LINE; HEPG2 CELL LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROSCOPY; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 84907912886     PISSN: 09731296     EISSN: 09764062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0973-1296.139792     Document Type: Article

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