plant-derived natural products are known to have cancer chemo-preventive and chemo-therapeutic properties. plant extracts or their active constituents are used as folk medicine in traditional therapies by 80% of the world population. the aim of the present study was to determine the anti-proliferative potential of fumaria vaillantii extracts on three different cancer cell lines including malign...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) represent a class of small non-coding RNAs regulating gene expression by inducing RNA degradation or interfering with translation. Aberrant miRNA expression has been described for several human malignancies. Herein, we show that miR-145 is down-regulated in human cancer cell line MCF-7 when compared to normal human mammary epithelial cell line MCF10A. Overexpression of miR-14...

Curcumin (diferuloyl methane), the yellow-colored dietary pigment from the rhizomes of turmeric, has been recognized as a chemopreventive agent because of its antitumor, antioxidant and antiproliferative effects. The cytotoxic, apoptotic and gene regulatory effects of both turmeric and curcumin were investigated in the MCF-7 human breast cancer carcinoma cell line and compared with the effects ...

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the cytotoxic effects of Arctium minus (Hill) Bernh. ssp. methanol extract derived from aerial parts on cancer cell lines.Material and Method: For cytotoxicity assays, two different human breast lines (MCF-7 MDA-MB-231) healthy fibroblast line (MRC-5)as a control were used. Cell viability determination was performed using CellTiter-Blue method. One-Way AN...

Fragrant species of the genus Salvia have been attributed many medicinal properties, which include anticancer activity. In the present study, cytotoxic properties of total methanol extract of Salvia chloroleuca Rech. f. & Aellen and its fractions were investigated on MCF-7, a breast carcinoma cell line. Malignant and non-malignant cells were cultured in RPMI medium and incubated with different ...

The MCF-7 human breast cancer cell line responds to estrogen stimulation in vitro by increased secretion of growth factors and proliferation and in vivo by tumor formation in the nude mouse. To test a possible role of growth factor secretion in expression of the tumorigenic phenotype, we stably transfected MCF-7 cells with the v-Ha-ras oncogene to produce the MCF-7ras cell line. The MCF-7ras ce...