Despite increased use of early detection methods and more aggressive treatment strategies, the worldwide incidence of colorectal cancer is still on the rise. Consequently, it remains urgent to identify novel agents with enhanced efficacy in prevention and/or therapeutic protocols. Our studies focused on the use of Plumbagin, a natural phytochemical that showed promising results against other tu...

BACKGROUND Quinones are compounds extensively used in studies of oxidative stress due to their role in plants as chemicals for defense. These compounds are of great interest for pharmacologists and scientists, in general, because several cancer chemotherapeutic agents contain the quinone nucleus. However, due to differences in structures and diverse pharmacological effects, the exact toxicity m...

Introduction: Complex natural products are emerging as a potent alternate and complement in anticancer therapies due to its multiple mechanisms of action and minimal effects on nontarget cells/tissues. Some of the traditional herbal formulations contain Plumbago zeylanica L, (commonly known as Chitraka or Chitramoolam) to treat various disorders for centuries in Africa and Asia. Methods: The qu...

Forty five plumbago rosea accessions collected from different parts of Kerala state were evaluated for variability in morphological and yield related characters and plumbagin content. Highly significant variation was evident for all the characters studied except leaf size indicating wide variability in the accessions. Accessions PR 25 and PR 31 appear to be promising with respect to root yield ...

To observe the inhibitory effect of plumbagin on invasion and migration glioma cells U-118 to explore possible mechanism its action. were cultured in medium with different concentrations counted morphological changes observed under microscope after 24 h incubation cell proliferation was detected by 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol- 2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide, scratching assay Transwell method...

Background/Aim: We investigated the cytotoxic effects of plumbagin on metastatic retinoblastoma, using highly cell line Y79. Materials and Methods: Effect growth was assessed with water-soluble tetrazolium 1 (WST-1) proliferation assay automated hemocytometry trypan blue-exclusion assay. Cell death studied acridine orange/ethidium bromide live-dead annexin-V-fluorescein isothiocyanate/propidium...

Schistosomiasis, a snail-borne parasitic disease, affects more than 200 million people worldwide. Currently the treatment of schistosomiasis relies on a single therapy of praziquantel, a drug developed over 30 years ago. Thus, there is an urgent need to develop alternative antischistosomal drugs. In the pursuit of novel antischistosomal drugs, we examined the antischistosomal activities of 45 c...