Zwitterion Chromatography-Hydrophilic Interaction Chromatography for Separation and Quantitative of Rutin and Quercetin from Herbs and Bee Products

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 484-484
Author(s):  
Raad Radi Karabat Raad Radi Karabat ◽  
Ashraf Saad Rasheed and Mohammed Jasim M Hassan Ashraf Saad Rasheed and Mohammed Jasim M Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Cells ◽  
Chromatographic Separation ◽  
Human Cancer ◽  
Stationary Phases ◽  
Hydrophilic Interaction Chromatography ◽  
Hydrophilic Interaction ◽  
Experimental Animals ◽  
Cancer Induction ◽  
Rutin And Quercetin

Quercetin and rutin have a number of useful pharmacological consequences and a possible medication of the future. The growth of cancer cells was observed in vitro and the production of tumors in experimental animals was decreased. In addition to preventing human cancer induction and progression. A set of four HILIC stationary phases, two home-made columns with different space chains between the ionic site groups, and two commercially stationary phases HALOand#174;HILIC 2.7 and ZICand#174;–pHILIC for chromatographic separation and quantitation of quercetin and rutin in herbs and bee products. The separation mechanisms are based on hydrophobic and hydrophilic for the quercetin and rutin, respectively. The validated method was successfully applied in bee products and herbs. The results showed that the HILIC methods were simple and reliable and could be used in bee products and herbs to detect the content of quercetin and rutin.

scholarly journals A New Smoothened Antagonist Bearing the Purine Scaffold Shows Antitumour Activity In Vitro and In Vivo

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (16) ◽  
pp. 8372
Author(s):  
Ana María Zárate ◽  
Christian Espinosa-Bustos ◽  
Simón Guerrero ◽  
Angélica Fierro ◽  
Felipe Oyarzún-Ampuero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Cells ◽  
Human Cancer ◽  
Antitumour Activity ◽  
Anticancer Compounds ◽  
Human Cancer Cells ◽  
Cycle Arrest ◽  
Apoptosis Inducer ◽  
Purine Ring

The Smoothened (SMO) receptor is the most druggable target in the Hedgehog (HH) pathway for anticancer compounds. However, SMO antagonists such as vismodegib rapidly develop drug resistance. In this study, new SMO antagonists having the versatile purine ring as a scaffold were designed, synthesised, and biologically tested to provide an insight to their mechanism of action. Compound 4s was the most active and the best inhibitor of cell growth and selectively cytotoxic to cancer cells. 4s induced cell cycle arrest, apoptosis, a reduction in colony formation and downregulation of PTCH and GLI1 expression. BODIPY-cyclopamine displacement assays confirmed 4s is a SMO antagonist. In vivo, 4s strongly inhibited tumour relapse and metastasis of melanoma cells in mice. In vitro, 4s was more efficient than vismodegib to induce apoptosis in human cancer cells and that might be attributed to its dual ability to function as a SMO antagonist and apoptosis inducer.

Rhodium(i) N-heterocyclic carbene complexes: synthesis and cytotoxic properties

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (11) ◽  
pp. 5176-5183
Author(s):  
Ichraf Slimani ◽  
Serap Şahin-Bölükbaşı ◽  
Mustafa Ulu ◽  
Enes Evren ◽  
Nevin Gürbüz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Cells ◽  
Mtt Assay ◽  
Incubation Time ◽  
Human Cancer ◽  
Cytotoxic Activities ◽  
Carbene Complexes ◽  
Human Cancer Cells ◽  
Benzimidazolium Salts ◽  
Ht 29

A series of benzimidazolium salts and their [RhCl(NHC)(COD)] complexes were synthesized. All compounds were screened for in vitro cytotoxic activities against a panel of human cancer cells (HT-29 colon, Ishikawa endometrial, U-87 glioblastoma) using the MTT assay for 48 h incubation time.

Multicomponent 5-fluorouracil loaded PAMAM stabilized-silver nanocomposites synergistically induce apoptosis in human cancer cells

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 457-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ishita Matai ◽  
Abhay Sachdev ◽  
P. Gopinath
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Therapy ◽  
Cancer Cells ◽  
Therapeutic Agent ◽  
Human Cancer ◽  
Pamam Dendrimer ◽  
Human Cancer Cells ◽  
Silver Nanocomposites

Herein, we report the development of a poly(amidoamine) (PAMAM) dendrimer based multicomponent therapeutic agent forin vitrocancer therapy applications.

scholarly journals Overexpressed Pituitary Tumor-Transforming Gene Causes Aneuploidy in Live Human Cells

Endocrinology ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 144 (11) ◽  
pp. 4991-4998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Run Yu ◽  
Wenge Lu ◽  
Jiandong Chen ◽  
Chris J. McCabe ◽  
Shlomo Melmed
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Cells ◽  
Chromosome Segregation ◽  
Pituitary Tumor ◽  
Fluorescent Protein ◽  
Human Cancer ◽  
Live Cells ◽  
Pituitary Tumor Transforming Gene ◽  
Transforming Gene

Abstract The mammalian securin, pituitary tumor-transforming gene (PTTG), is overexpressed in several tumors and transforms cells in vitro and in vivo. To test the hypothesis that PTTG overexpression causes aneuploidy, enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP)-tagged PTTG (PTTG-EGFP) was expressed in human H1299 cancer cells (with undetectable endogenous PTTG expression) and mitosis of individual live cells observed. Untransfected cells and cells expressing EGFP alone exhibited appropriate mitosis. PTTG-EGFP markedly prolonged prophase and metaphase, indicating that PTTG blocks progression of mitosis to anaphase. In cells that underwent apparently normal mitosis (35 of 65 cells), PTTG-EGFP was degraded about 1 min before anaphase onset. Cells that failed to degrade PTTG-EGFP exhibited asymmetrical cytokinesis without chromosome segregation (18 of 65 cells) or chromosome decondensation without cytokinesis (9 of 65 cells), resulting in appearance of a macronucleus. Fifty-one of 55 cells expressing a nondegradable mutant PTTG exhibited asymmetrical cytokinesis without chromosome segregation, and some (4 of 55) decondensed chromosomes, both resulting in macronuclear formation. During this abnormal cytokinesis, all chromosomes and spindles and both centrosomes moved to one daughter cell, suggesting potential chaos in the subsequent mitosis. In conclusion, failure of PTTG degradation or enhanced PTTG accumulation, as a consequence of overexpression, inhibits mitosis progression and chromosome segregation but does not directly affect cytokinesis, resulting in aneuploidy. These results demonstrate that PTTG induces aneuploidy in single, live, human cancer cells.

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