Journal of Applied Biological Chemistry
- Volume 43 Issue 1
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- Pages.59-61
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- 2000
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- 1976-0442(pISSN)
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- 2234-7941(eISSN)
Cytotoxic Activity of Medicinal Plant Extracts against Human Tumor Cell Lines
- Jeong, In-Hong (Graduate School of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University) ;
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Lee, Jeong-Ock
(Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology) ;
- Kim, Choul-Soo (Halla Arboretum) ;
- Kim, Soo-Un (Graduate School of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University) ;
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Ahn, Young-Joon
(Graduate School of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University)
- Received : 1999.12.22
- Published : 2000.03.31
Abstract
The cytotoxic activities of the methanol extracts of 44 plant species in 31 families against five human solid A549 (lung), SK-OV-2 (ovarian), SK-MEL-2 (melanoma), XF-498 (central nervous system), and HCT-15 (colon) tumor cell lines were examined using the sulforhodamine B (SRB) assay. Responses varied with both cell line and plant species used. Potent cytotoxic activities (