IN VITRO ANTI-OBESITY AND ANTI-CANCER ACTIVITIES OF DIFFERENT EXTRACTS OF ANNONA SQUAMOSA L. AND FICUS RACEMOSA L. LEAVES.
Uma Sankar Gorla* and K. Ravi Shankar
Abstract
Extracts of Annona squamosa and Ficus racemosa leaves were
prepared by continuous soxhlet extraction using ethanol and hexane
solvents and thereafter subjected for lipase inhibition assay to evaluate
anti obesity activity and XTT assay against human lung cancer cell
lines (A-549) and human metastatic breast cancer cell lines (MDAMB-
435S) to estimate anticancer property. All extracts showed their
varying inhibition activities by dose dependent manner and the results
were statistically significant with p
Keywords: Annona Squamosa; Ficus racemosa; XTT-assay; Anti Lipase; Anti cancer; Cytotoxic.
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