EVALUATION OF PLANT EXTRACTS AGAINST LUNG CANCER USING H460 CELL LINE

Mammalian tumor cells show imperviousness to chemotherapy and its serious symptoms lessens the clinical adequacy of an extensive assortment of anticancer drugs. Plant-derived compounds show numerous valuable impacts and can restrain a few phases of malignancy of cancer. Despite there is paramount progress in cancer therapeutics in the last decades, the need to find, grow new and synergistic plant predicated anticancer specialists are in the developing stage. In the present study, we endeavored to exploit bioactive compounds of two plants viz. Limonia acidissima and Syzygium cumini, investigated their antiproliferative properties for lung cancer and evaluated the haemolytic activity. Methanol extracts of these plants were experimented for cytotoxic activity and found that L.acidissima and S.cumini selectively inhibited H 460 cell proliferation and found that the two plants are non-haemolytic. Our study deduce that the potential bioactive compounds of these plants have vibrant chance to fight lung cancer as were seen to be non-haemolytic to blood cells and they are very much recorded as a traditional medicine for various therapeutic uses

Photolysis of diphenylmercury in zeolite

Glass Laboratory (GTS), Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute. Jadavpur, Calcutta-700 032 Manuscript received 24 November 1992, revised 26 May 1993, accepted 6 July 1993 Photolysis of Diphenylmercury in Zeolites

Photochemistry in porous materials, ii .1. photolysis of benzoin ethers in silicalite

Four benzoin ethers 1 (a: methyl-, b: ethyl-, c: isopropyl-, d: phenylether) were photolyzed inside the channel system of silicalite S-115, a novel type of zeolite. Products which could be separated from the zeolite framework in various relative yields were pinacol ethers (from a, b, c), benzil (a - d), benzaldehyde (a - d), benzoates (a - d), and phenol (d). While the former three types of products clearly arise from Norrish type I cleavage of the parent molecules, a mechanism involving the enolic form of the benzoin ethers is proposed in order to explain the formation of benzoates and phenol