BACKGROUND Cinnamomum cassia bark is a popular culinary spice used for flavoring and in traditional medicine. C. cassia extract (CE) induces apoptosis in many cell lines. In the present study, particular differences in the mechanism of the anti-proliferative property of C. cassia on two breast cancer cell lines, MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231, were elucidated. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS The hexane ...

There were substantiated the expediency of the using for the determination of identity of Cassia acutifolia Del. leaves of spectrophotometry and TLC. As the results of the chemical study of Cassia acutifolia leaves there were isolated the predominant components of this plant 1,7-dihydroxy-3carboxyanhraquinone, 8-O-β-D-glucopyranoside of torachrysone, kaempferol-3-O-gentiobioside and on this bas...

Medicinal plants possess unlimited and untapped wealth of chemical compounds with high drug potential which make these plants useful as sources of biomedicines. Cassia species have been of keen interest in phytochemical due to their excellent medicinal values. All Cassia species are an important rich source of secondary metabolites, notably anthraquinone derivatives and has been used in Chinese...

Fungal activity of the essential oil extracted from Cassia tora (Fabaceae) was studied against dermatophytic fungi like Microsporum gypseum. Study of dermatophytes in soil samples collected from Jaipur, was carried out but only 88% samples contained dermatophytic fungi. In screening of the essential oil of Cassia tora the diameter of inhibition zone was found to be 19 mm for Microsporum gypseum...