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In vitro evaluation of cytotoxic and mutagenic activity of avarol

Overview of attention for article published in Natural Product Research, July 2015
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Title
In vitro evaluation of cytotoxic and mutagenic activity of avarol
Published in
Natural Product Research, July 2015
DOI 10.1080/14786419.2015.1052067
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Boris Pejin, Carmine Iodice, Vesna Kojic, Dimitar Jakimov, Milica Lazovic, Giuseppina Tommonaro

Abstract

The cytotoxicity of avarol, a main secondary metabolite of the Mediterranean sponge Dysidea avara, was in vitro screened by MTT assay against four human tumour cell lines. The colon HT-29 tumour cells practically showed to be the only sensitive ones towards this organic compound. No toxicity was found against the fetal lung fibroblast MRC-5 cells at the concentrations tested. In comparison with doxorubicin, used as a positive control, avarol actually exhibited at least 588-fold less toxicity towards normal MRC-5 cells. Finally, comet assay indicated that DNA fragmentation was almost fivefold higher upon the treatment with doxorubicin, compared to avarol. The obtained results have actually confirmed that avarol scaffold may contribute to development of new cytostatics inspired by nature.

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Unknown 10 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 3 30%
Student > Master 2 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 20%
Unspecified 1 10%
Unknown 2 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 20%
Unspecified 1 10%
Environmental Science 1 10%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 10%
Other 2 20%
Unknown 2 20%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 May 2017.
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#17,283,763
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#907
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#164,898
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Outputs of similar age from Natural Product Research
#16
of 43 outputs
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