Current Issues in Pharmacy and Medical Sciences (Sep 2020)

Bromelain-based chemo-herbal combination effect on human cancer cells: in-vitro study on AGS and MCF7 proliferation and apoptosis

  • Raeisi Elham,
  • Aazami Mathias Hossain,
  • Aghamiri Seyed Mahmud Reza,
  • Satari Atefeh,
  • Hosseinzadeh Safoura,
  • Lemoigne Yves,
  • Heidarian Esfandiar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2478/cipms-2020-0028
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 33, no. 3
pp. 155 – 161

Abstract

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Aim. Chemo-herbal combinations promise new clinical anticancer therapeutic modalities. The current study investigated and compared the in vitro effects of a bromelain-based chemo-herbal combination to/with cisplatin or 5-FU, with regard to the proliferation and apoptosis of human gastric AGS and breast MCF7 cell lines.

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