title: Cytotoxic activity of lactobacilli isolated from plant and dairy sources.
abstract: Forty four cultures of Lactobacilli isolated from their natural sources such as dahi, raw milk and fermenting rice-pulse doughs etc. along with four standard strains of Lactobacilli were assayed for their cytotoxic activity against three secondary tumour cell lines. Three cultures isolated from dahi samples and identified as Lactobacillus casei D-34, L. casei D-48a, L. plantarum D-70a along with one standard strain L. casei B 1922 exhibited significant cytotoxic activity in the range of 30 to 36%.
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authors.lastname: Manjunath
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authors.lastname: Ranganathan
mesh_terms: D002470:Cell Survival; D007778:Lactobacillus / Q000502:physiology*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured