Natural Product Sciences
- Volume 6 Issue 4
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- Pages.183-188
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- 2000
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- 1226-3907(pISSN)
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- 2288-9027(eISSN)
Evaluation of Cytotoxic Potential of Natural Products in Cultured Human Cancer Cells
- Nam, Kyung-Ae (The Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences and College of Pharmacy, Ewha Womans University) ;
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Lee, Sang-Kook
(The Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences and College of Pharmacy, Ewha Womans University)
- Published : 2000.12.01
Abstract
In order to discover novel potent antitumor agents, methanolic extracts of approximately 180 herbal medicines were prepared and primarily evaluated for cytotoxic activity in cultured human lung (A549) and colon (Col 2) cancer cells. As a result, 17 natural product extracts were found to be active in the criteria of