Abstract
The preparation of chiral tetrahydroquinolines using Ir-catalysed asymmetric hydrogenation and their possible cytotoxic potential anti-cancer activity were reported. Both of the in vitro cytotoxicity assay on a series of human cancer cell lines including A549 small cell lung cancer, MDA-MB-231 breast cancer, SaoS2 sacroma, SKHep-1 hepatoma and Hep3B hepatocellular carcinoma as well as in vivo animal model using Hep3B hepatocellular tumour xenograft on athymic nude mice suggest that 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquin-8-ol is a potential anti-tumour alkaloid which may be further developed as a novel cancer chemotherapeutic agent.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 166-171 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Phytomedicine |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 15 Jan 2013 |
User-Defined Keywords
- Cancer cells
- Galipea officinalis
- Tetrahydroquinoline alkaloid
- Xenograft