Potential anticancer properties of bioactive compounds of Gymnema sylvestre and its biofunctionalized silver nanoparticles

International Journal of Nanomedicine

Volumn 10, Issue , 2014, Pages 31-41

  Arunachalam, Kantha Deivi ^a   Arun, Lilly Baptista ^a   Annamalai, Sathesh Kumar ^a   Arunachalam, Aarrthy M ^b  

^a SRM INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b Kaplan University   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticancer activity; Biofunctionalized silver nanoparticles; Gymnema sylvestre; Gymnemic acid; HT29 cell line

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; FLAVONOID; GYMNEMA SYLVESTRE EXTRACT; SAPONIN; SILVER NANOPARTICLE; SILVER NITRATE; STEROID; TRITERPENE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; NANOPARTICLE; PLANT EXTRACT; SILVER;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; VERO CELL LINE; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CHLOROCEBUS AETHIOPS; GYMNEMA SYLVESTRE; HT-29 CELL LINE; MEDICINAL PLANT; PLANT LEAF;

GYMNEMA SYLVESTRE;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; GYMNEMA SYLVESTRE; HT29 CELLS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOPARTICLES; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SAPONINS; SILVER; SILVER NITRATE; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; TRITERPENES; VERO CELLS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84919657017     PISSN: 11769114     EISSN: 11782013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/IJN.S71182     Document Type: Article

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