Cytotoxic activity of α-humulene and transcaryo- phyllene from Salvia officinalis in animal and human tumor cells

Background: The purpose of the present work is two-fold: the frac- tionation of Salvia officinalis essential oil and the cytotoxic study of this oil with its fractions "in vitro" tumor cell lines. Materials and Methods: S. officinalis essential oil was obtained by hydrodistillation and fractionated with column chromatography; the essential oil and its fractions were analyzed by gas chromatography (GC) coupled to mass spectrometry (MS). The cytotoxic activity was evaluated in cellular lines of breast cancer MCF-7, colon cancer HCT-116, and murine macrophage RAW264.7 cell lines by the MTT assay. Results: the sub-subfraction F1.1.1 of S. officinalis essential oil containing α- humulene present highest activity on RAW264.7 and HCT-116 with

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