Anticancer screening of ethanol extract from selected piperaceae family and its determination via trypan blue staining

• Main Authors: Wan Haifa Haryani Wan Omar,, Shahrul Hisham Zainal Ariffin,, Zaidah Zainal Ariffin,, Muhd Fauzi Safian,, Sahidan Senafi,, Rohaya Megat Abdul Wahab,
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2010
• Online Access: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7437/1/26_Ayiesah.pdf; http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7437/; http://www.ukm.my/jsm/english_journals/vol39num6_2010/contentsVol39num6_2010.html

The Piperaceae family comprises about 1000 to 2000 of the species that are widely distributed in tropical and subtropical area. In this study, the ethanol extracts were used to evaluate the cytotoxic activity on human hepatocellular carcinoma (HepG2) and non-malignant Chang’s liver cell lines by usi...