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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
In vitro anticancer screening of 24 locally used Nigerian medicinal plants
BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 13, Article 79, Year 2013
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Background: Plants that are used as traditional medicine represent a relevant pool for selecting plant candidates that may have anticancer properties. In this study, the ethnomedicinal approach was used to select several medicinal plants native to Nigeria, on the basis of their local or traditional uses. The collected plants were then evaluated for cytoxicity.Methods: The antitumor activity of methanolic extracts obtained from 24 of the selected plants, were evaluated in vitro on five human cancer cell lines.Results: Results obtained from the plants screened indicate that 18 plant extracts of folk medicine exhibited promising cytotoxic activity against human carcinoma cell lines. Erythrophleum suaveolens (Guill. & Perr.) Brenan was found to demonstrate potent anti-cancer activity in this study exhibiting IC50 = 0.2-1.3 μg/ml.Conclusions: Based on the significantly potent activity of some plants extracts reported here, further studies aimed at mechanism elucidation and bio-guided isolation of active anticancer compounds is currently underway. © 2013 Fadeyi et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
Authors & Co-Authors
Fadeyi, Saudat Adamson
United States, Nashville
Tennessee State University
United States, Nashville
Meharry Medical College
Fadeyi, Olugbeminiyi O.
United States, Nashville
Tennessee State University
United States, Cambridge
Harvard University
Adejumo, Adedeji A.
Nigeria, Zaria
Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria
Okoro, Cosmas
United States, Nashville
Tennessee State University
Myles, Elbert Lewis
United States, Nashville
Tennessee State University
Statistics
Citations: 113
Authors: 5
Affiliations: 4
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1186/1472-6882-13-79
e-ISSN:
14726882
Research Areas
Cancer
Health System And Policy
Study Locations
Nigeria