Sánchez-Ramos, M.; Encarnación-García, J.G.; Marquina-Bahena, S.; Sánchez-Carranza, J.N.; Bernabé-Antonio, A.; Domínguez-Villegas, V.; Cabañas-García, E.; Cruz-Sosa, F. Cytotoxic Activity of Wild Plant and Callus Extracts of Ageratina pichinchensis and 2,3-Dihydrobenzofuran Isolated from a Callus Culture. Pharmaceuticals2023, 16, 1400.
Sánchez-Ramos, M.; Encarnación-García, J.G.; Marquina-Bahena, S.; Sánchez-Carranza, J.N.; Bernabé-Antonio, A.; Domínguez-Villegas, V.; Cabañas-García, E.; Cruz-Sosa, F. Cytotoxic Activity of Wild Plant and Callus Extracts of Ageratina pichinchensis and 2,3-Dihydrobenzofuran Isolated from a Callus Culture. Pharmaceuticals 2023, 16, 1400.
Sánchez-Ramos, M.; Encarnación-García, J.G.; Marquina-Bahena, S.; Sánchez-Carranza, J.N.; Bernabé-Antonio, A.; Domínguez-Villegas, V.; Cabañas-García, E.; Cruz-Sosa, F. Cytotoxic Activity of Wild Plant and Callus Extracts of Ageratina pichinchensis and 2,3-Dihydrobenzofuran Isolated from a Callus Culture. Pharmaceuticals2023, 16, 1400.
Sánchez-Ramos, M.; Encarnación-García, J.G.; Marquina-Bahena, S.; Sánchez-Carranza, J.N.; Bernabé-Antonio, A.; Domínguez-Villegas, V.; Cabañas-García, E.; Cruz-Sosa, F. Cytotoxic Activity of Wild Plant and Callus Extracts of Ageratina pichinchensis and 2,3-Dihydrobenzofuran Isolated from a Callus Culture. Pharmaceuticals 2023, 16, 1400.
Abstract
: The cytotoxic effect of four extracts obtained from the wild plant and two from a culture of Ag-eratina pichinchensis calluses on cell lines: prostate carcinoma, cervical cancer, hepatocellular car-cinoma, human hepatoma, lung cancer and cellular keratinocytes was evaluated; the extracts were obtained with ethyl acetate and methanol, leaves and stems were used from the wild plant. The results of the cytotoxic evaluation showed that only the ethyl acetate extract obtained from the callus culture showed an effect on the cervical cancer cell line (HeLa) with an IC50 of 94.79 ± 2.0 µg/mL. The purification of this extract allowed obtaining a benzofuran type compound as the main product, which was identified as 2,3-dihydrobenzofuran. The cytotoxic evaluation of this compound showed an important effect against the HeLa cell line with an IC50 of 23.86 ± 2. .5µg/mL. These results contribute to the development of alternatives for the production of com-pounds for the treatment of cancer.
Keywords
ytotoxic activity; 2,3-dihydrobenzofuran; cervical cancer
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Biology and Biotechnology
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