INVITRO STUDIES ON THE EFFECT OF LANTANA CAMARA LINN. IN LIVER CANCER HEPG2 CELL LINES

Dinesh Bhaskar, Dheyaa Shakir Mashrea, Nagarathna Amresh, *Balasubramanian Sathyamurthy

ABSTRACT

The leaves of Lantana Camara L. was regarded both as a notorious weed and a popular ornamental garden plant that are commonly used in traditional medicine by many Asian and Middle Eastern Countries to treat wound, skin allergy, ulcer and many other diseases. This leaves extracts are found to have antioxidant and anticancer activities, Triterpenes is the active principle which is responsible for these beneficial effects. The aim of the present study was to check the in vitro antioxidant and antitumor activity of Lantana Camara Linn leaves on Liver cancer HepG2 cell lines. We found Methanol extracts of Lantana Camara L. leaves have phytochemical compounds that are inhibitorier, scavenging free radicals with less anticancer activities.

Keywords: Lantana Camara L. Triterpenes, HepG2 cell line.