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Black nightshade and cancer
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005611
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[Article in Chinese] An L, Tang JT, Liu XM, Gao NN. Institute of Medicinal Plant Devlopment, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
This paper gave a brief introduction of the effect of Solanum nigrum on anti-cancer. The experimental results showed that the total alkaloid isolated from S. nigrum interfered structure and function of tumor cell membrane, disturbed the synthesis of DNA and RNA, changed the cell cycle distribution, so that total alkaloids could play in inhibabition to tumor cells, while the glycoprotein (150 x 10(3)) isolated from S. nigrum might have shown anti-cancer abilities by blocking the anti-apoptotic pathway of NF-kappaB, activating caspase cascades reaction and increasing the production of nitric oxide.
PMID: 17048560