Study on the anticancer activities (in vivo) of the extract from Citrus reticulata Blanco and its influence on sarcoma-180 cells cycle / 中国中药杂志

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To study the anticancer activity of the extract from Citrus reticulata in vivo.</p><p><b>METHOD</b>Anticancer activities were tested with tumor model in vivo (Sarcoma-180 cells, Heps cells, EAC cells implanted in mice).</p><p><b>RESULT</b>The extract from Citrus reticulata showed marked anticancer activities on Sarcoma-180 cells and Heps cells implanted in mice, had no marked anticancer activities on EAC cells implanted in mice and induced apoptosis of Sarcoma-180 cell.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>The extract from Citrus reticulata will have promising prospects as an anticancer Chinese medicine, but further studies will be needed.</p>