1. Crateva adansonii DC, an African ethnomedicinal plant, exerts cytotoxicity in vitro and prevents experimental mammary tumorigenesis in vivo.
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Zingue, Stéphane, Cisilotto, Julia, Tueche, Alain Brice, Bishayee, Anupam, Mefegue, Francine Azegha, Sandjo, Louis Pergaud, Magne Nde, Chantal Beatrice, Winter, Evelyn, Michel, Thomas, Ndinteh, Derek Tantoh, Awounfack, Charline Florence, Silihe, Kevine Kamga, Melachio Tanekou, Tito Tresor, Creczynski-Pasa, Tânia Beatriz, and Njamen, Dieudonné
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DNA analysis , *ENZYME metabolism , *MEDICINAL plants , *ALTERNATIVE medicine , *ANIMAL experimentation , *ANTINEOPLASTIC agents , *ANTIOXIDANTS , *BIOCHEMISTRY , *BIOLOGICAL assay , *BIOLOGICAL models , *BLOOD testing , *DOSE-effect relationship in pharmacology , *HIGH performance liquid chromatography , *HISTOLOGICAL techniques , *LIGNANS , *MASS spectrometry , *PHENOMENOLOGY , *PROBABILITY theory , *RATS , *TAMOXIFEN , *TANNINS , *PHYTOCHEMICALS , *PLANT extracts , *STATISTICAL significance , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *IN vitro studies , *IN vivo studies , *PHARMACODYNAMICS ,BREAST tumor prevention - Abstract
Ethnopharmacological relevance Crateva adansonii DC is a plant traditionally used in Cameroon to treat constipation, asthma, snakebites, postmenopausal complaints and cancers. Aim The anticancer potential of the dichloromethane/methanol extract of C. adansonii stem barks was investigated using human breast cancer cell and 7,12 dimethylbenz(a)anththracene (DMBA)-induced mammary tumorigenesis model in rats. Material and methods The cytotoxicity of C. adansonii extract was assessed in vitro towards breast carcinoma (MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231) and non-tumoral cell lines (NIH/3T3 and HUVEC) by Alamar Blue assay. Furthermore, in vivo studies were performed on female Wistar rats treated either with C. adansonii extract at a dose of 75 or 300 mg/kg body weight or with tamoxifen (3.3 mg/kg body weight), starting 1 week prior DMBA treatment and lasted 12 weeks. The investigation focused on tumour burden, tumour DNA fingerprint, morphological, histological, hematological, and biochemical parameters. Results CC 50 values for the in vitro assays were 289 µg/mL against MCF-7 cells and >500 µg/mL in others cells, leading to a selectivity index ≥1.73. C. adansonii extract significantly (p<0.001) revealed in vivo the reduction of the cumulative tumour yield (87.23%), total tumour burden (88.64%), average tumour weight (71.11%) and tumour volume (78.07%) at the dose of 75 mg/kg as compared to DMBA control group. A weak effect was also observed at 300 mg/kg. This extract showed a moderate hyperplasia at the dose of 75 mg/kg while at 300 mg/kg no significant change was noted as compared to DMBA group. It protected rats from the DNA alteration induced by DMBA and increased antioxydant enzymes activities in mammary gland tissue homogenates. In addition, Ultra-High Performance Liquid Chromatography/ESI-QTOF-Mass Spectrometry analysis of C. adansonii extract detected structure-related of many well-known anticancer agents such as flavane gallate, flavonol, phenylpropanoïds, sesquiterpene derivatives, gallotannins and lignans. The LD 50 of C. adansonii was estimated to be greater than 5000 mg/kg. Conclusions These aforementioned results suggest that the C. adansonii extract may possess antitumor constituents, which could combat breast cancer and prevent chemically-induced breast cancer in rats. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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