An apolar Pistacia lentiscus L. leaf extract: GC-MS metabolic profiling and evaluation of cytotoxicity and apoptosis inducing effects on SH-SY5Y and SK-N-BE(2)C cell lines

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 95, Issue , 2016, Pages 64-74

  Piccolella, Simona ^a   Nocera, Paola ^a   Carillo, Petronia ^a   Woodrow, Pasqualina ^a   Greco, Vincenza ^a   Manti, Lorenzo ^b   Fiorentino, Antonio ^a   Pacifico, Severina ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apoptosis inducing effects; Cytotoxicity; GC MS; Pentacyclic triterpenes; Pistacia lentiscus L.; Pro oxidant activity

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE DISULFIDE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PISTACIA LENTISCUS EXTRACT; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SULFORHODAMINE B; VINBLASTINE; ANTIOXIDANT; PLANT EXTRACT;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DENSITOMETRY; DNA FRAGMENTATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ID50; IN VIVO STUDY; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MTT ASSAY; PLANT LEAF; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; WESTERN BLOTTING; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; METABOLOMICS; MITOCHONDRION; NERVE CELL; NEUROBLASTOMA; PATHOLOGY; PISTACIA; PROCEDURES;

ANTIOXIDANTS; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CASPASE 3; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; METABOLOMICS; MITOCHONDRIA; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEURONS; PISTACIA; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

EID: 84978136364     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: 18736351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2016.06.028     Document Type: Article

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