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SUBMITTER: Cappadone C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7020228 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cappadone Concettina C Mandrone Manuela M Chiocchio Ilaria I Sanna Cinzia C Malucelli Emil E Bassi Vincenza V Picone Giovanna G Poli Ferruccio F
Plants (Basel, Switzerland) 20191224 1
Sardinia (Italy), with its wide range of habitats and high degree of endemism, is an important area for plant-based drug discovery studies. In this work, the antitumor activity of 35 samples from Sardinian plants was evaluated on human osteosarcoma cells U2OS. The results showed that five plants were strongly antiproliferative: <i>Arbutus unedo</i> (AuL), <i>Cynara cardunculus</i> (CyaA), <i>Centaurea calcitrapa</i> (CcA), <i>Smilax aspera</i> (SaA), and <i>Tanacetum audibertii</i> (TaA), the la ...[more]