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Plant extracts as modulators of genotoxic effects
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Higher plants used extensively in traditional medicines are increasingly being screened for their role in modulating the activity of environmental genotoxicants, and plant extracts able to modify the process of mutagenesis, which involves alteration in the genetic material are extended.Abstract:
Higher plants used extensively in traditional medicines are increasingly being screened for their role in modulating the activity of environmental genotoxicants. The property of preventing carcinogenesis has been reported in many plant extracts. The observation of a close association between carcinogenesis and mutagenesis has extended the survey to include plant extracts and plant products able to modify the process of mutagenesis, which involves alteration in the genetic material. Natural plant products may, apart from inducing mutations, modify the action of other known mutagens on the living organisms by 1) activating the existing mutagens within the cell, 2) inhibiting the production of mutagens in the cell, 3) synergising the activity of existing mutagens, or 4) activating the promutagens within the cell into mutagens. This review deals with data obtained in the course of research on the modulatory effects of plant extracts on mutagenesis and clastogenesis, two genotoxic phenomena associated with carcinogenesis.read more
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Broad spectrum antimutagenic activity of antioxidant active fraction of punica granatum L. peel extracts.
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Inhibitory effect of Emblica officinalis on the in vivo clastogenicity of benzo[a]pyrene and cyclophosphamide in mice.
TL;DR: The data indicate that the possible mechanism of inhibition by plant extract is mediated by its modulatory effect on hepatic activation and disposition processes.
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Methanol extract from the stem of Cotinus coggygria Scop., and its major bioactive phytochemical constituent myricetin modulate pyrogallol-induced DNA damage and liver injury.
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TL;DR: The results suggest that pro-surviving Akt activity and STAT3 protein expression play important roles in decreasing DNA damage and in mediating hepatic protection by the methanol extract of C. coggygria against pyrogallol-induced toxicity.
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Cytogenotoxicity of Cymbopogon citratus (DC) Stapf (lemon grass) aqueous extracts in vegetal test systems
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Potential Genotoxic and Cytotoxic Effects of Plant Extracts
TL;DR: The medicinal use of plants is probably as old as human kind itself and many of the plants species used for this purpose have been found to contain therapeutic substances which can be extracted and used in preparation of drugs.
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Effects of medicinal plant extracts from Chinese herbal medicines on the mutagenic activity of benzo[a]pyrene.
TL;DR: Cinnamomi cortex, Rhei rhizoma, Scutellariae radix and Rehmanniae radix were found to decrease the mutagenic activity of benzo[a]pyrene, and Aurantii nobilis pericarpium had an enhancing effect, but then neither of these extracts is itself Mutagenic.
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Effect of Emblica officinalis Gaertn. (Indian gooseberry) fruit extract on sodium azide and 4-nitro-o-phenylenediamine induced mutagenesis in Salmonella typhimurium.
I.S. Grover,Simran Kaur +1 more
TL;DR: The enhanced inhibitory activity of the extracts on pre-incubation suggests the possibility of desmutagens in the extracts, and the role of other antimutagenic factors in the extract cannot be ruled out.
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Enhancement of BHA-induced proliferative rat forestomach lesion development by simultaneous treatment with other antioxidants.
TL;DR: It is concluded that mixed treatment with BHA and other antioxidants exerted enhancing or inhibitory effects on the induction of hyperplasia at different sites of the forestomach epithelium.
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Vitamin C lowers mutagenic and toxic effect of hexavalent chromium in guinea pigs.
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Genotoxic action of an aqueous extract of Heliotropium curassavicum var. argentinum.
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