title: In vitro evaluation of cytotoxic activity of flower, leaf, stem and root extracts of five Artemisia species.
abstract: The present study was carried out to investigate cytotoxic activity of flower, leaf, stem and root extracts of five Artemisia species against breast cancer cell line (MCF7) and human embryonic kidney normal cell line (HEK293). The studied Artemisia species were A. absinthium, A. vulgaris, A. incana, A. fragrans and A. spicigera. The cytotoxic activity was measured by MTT assay at different concentrations (62.5, 125, 250, 500 μg/ml). Among these five species, methanol extracts of flower, leaf, stem and root of A. absinthium and A. vulgaris exhibited considerable cytotoxic activity. The flower extracts of these two species were found to have higher cytotoxic effect on MCF7 cell with an IC50 value of 221.5 and >500 μg/ml, respectively. Leaf methanol extract of A. incana also showed cytotoxic activity. Cytotoxic activity of different extracts of A. absinthium, A. vulgaris and A. incana against MCF7 was 10%-40% more than HEK293 cells. Not only the extracts of A. spicigera and A. fragrans did not show any cytotoxic effect against both cell lines, but also increased the number of cells. This study revealed that A. absinthium and A. vulgaris may have a great potential to explore new anticancer drugs.
authors: Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Urmia University, Urmia, I.R. Iran.
authors: B
authors: B
authors: Gordanian
authors: Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Advanced Sciences and Technologies, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, I.R. Iran.
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Behbahani
authors: Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Urmia University, Urmia, I.R. Iran.
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Carapetian
authors: Department of Biochemistry, Payam Nour of Tehran University, Tehran, I.R. Iran.
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Fazilati
keywords: Artemisia; HEK293; MCF7; MTT assay
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