Resumen
Longipilin acetate is the compound exhibiting cytotoxicity, isolated from endemic plant specie from Colombia, South America, Espeletia killipii Cuatr. Longipilin acetate is a sesquiterpenelactone having the ability to induce apoptosis in several breast cancer cell-lines like MCF-7 y CSC-1595 (obtained from National Cancer Institute, Bogotá Colombia), Morphological examination, nuclear DNA fragmentation, tunel and flow cytometry were used to evaluate apoptosis. Therefore longipilin acetate is a compound showing potential as an antitumor agent.
| Título traducido de la contribución | "Induction of apoptosis by the citotoxic active principle of Espeletia killipii Cuatr. on human cell lines" |
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| Idioma original | Portugués |
| Páginas (desde-hasta) | 497-500 |
| Número de páginas | 4 |
| Publicación | Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia |
| Volumen | 17 |
| N.º | 4 |
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| Estado | Publicada - 2007 |