Anticancer activity of Calea pinnatifida banks leaves crude extract and fractions / Atividade anticancer do extrato bruto e das frações das folhas de Calea pinnatifida banks

AUTOR(ES)

Gabriela Menezes Marchetti

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

Plants have provided a rich source of therapeutic agents for many centuries useful as themselves or the basis for synthetic drugs. Nowadays, the biology of cancer has been studied manly for the chemoprevention drug discovery. As plants and drugs based on plants have a lot of different structures and function they could be source of new drugs for cancer chemotherapy because more than 60% of the chemotherapics used today is from natural products. This work aimed the evaluation of the anticancer activity of a Brazilian specie, Calea pinnatifida Banks. Dichlorometanic (DCE) and ethanolic (ECE) crude extracts obtained from fresh and dried leaves were tested in an in vitro cytotoxicity assay against human cancer cell lines. As long as DCE from dried leaves showed the best anticancer activity profile, it was also evaluated in a murine cancer model, the Ehrlich Ascite Tumor (EAT) and Ehrlich Solid Tumor (EST). In the EAT experiment, DCE also demonstrated an anticancer activity resulted from the increase of the survival time of the animals. Whereas in the EST experiment, this extract have systemic anticancer activity by the inhibition of the tumor growth. Therefore the isolation and identification of the active principle responsible for that activity became the major focus of this work. As a result, DCE was submitted to many cromatographic procedures which were biomonitored by the anticancer assay in vitro. These chromatographic purifications originated a lot of fraction with antiproliferative activity in which the most significant are the acetate, A, C, D and non-polar fractions. These results encouraged following up on studies with C. pinnatifida, priorizing the identification of active principles, the determination of anticancer mechanism of action and to prove the anticancer activity in experimental cancer models in vivo.

ASSUNTO(S)

agentes antineoplasicos calea pinnatifida celulas - cultura e meios de cultura calea pinnatifida ehrlich tumor carcinoma de ehrlich antineoplastic agents cell proliferation proliferação celular cell culture carcinoma

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