AN OVERVIEW FOR DETERMININGCYTOTOXIC ACTIVITY OF SOMEINDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS

Abstract

The aim of this review is to provide cell-based assays for the assessment of the cytotoxicity potential of some Indian medicinal plants against different cancer cell lines on Humans. The cytotoxicity of various cell lines such as HepG2, Hs578T, MCF-7, A549, SKOV3 were evaluated by performing various invitro anticancer assays such as MTT assay, MTS assay, SRB assay, HPLC method. All these plants have the potential for invitro studies and possess anticancer activity. The result of this present study confirmed that plant extracts have bioactive constituents with cytotoxic properties and which are useful for developing new anticancer drugs.