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

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• ags cells
• bromelain
• cisplatin
• 5-fu
• mcf7 cells